don t fight clipper chip subvert or replace it clipper chip is a response to the fact that there is no business or professional body in a position to establish a standard and provide chipsets to implement it for analog or digial transmission systems rsa might be in position to do it if they had active cooperation of a couple of manufacturers of cellular phones or desktop phones large companies in the voice data comm business are out because they all have contracts with the gov which would be used to pressure them if we as professionals in crypto organizations eff etc were to put our collective minds and interests toward establishing a crypto standard for transmission and getting our companies to implement it we might avoid government control otherwise i think it will happen to us by default gov isn t probably strong enough or foolish enough to prevent strong crypt they are strong enough and we may be foolish enough to push through the clipper chip is rsa independt of the gov enough to spearhead this i for one would gladly pay royalties via purchasing secure phones if not this we should provide an algorithm which can be implemented in either sw or hw and publish it then push to make it the defacto standard in the way that pgp and ripem are becoming such we are opposing charging the bunker we should be nimble and clever the gov is strong not clever lew lew glendenning rlglende netcom com perspective is worth iq points niels bohr or somebody like that
