clipper and ranting libertarians i would think that you could reduce the defense of using non clipper based encryption technologies to defending freedom of expression ie free speech that you have to right to express whatever you want in whatever form your little heart desires so long as you do not impinge on the rights of others encrypted text sound video is just another form of expression of that particular text sound video just like digitized sound is another means of expression of sound streams of instead of continuous waveforms also it shouldn t be up to the government at all encryption standards can be decided upon by independent standards orgainizations apologies for the acronym one can note how well this has worked with iso and the metric system sae etc independent entities or consortia of people industries in that particular area are far more qualified to set standards than any one government agency consider for example what the ascii character set would have looked like if it was decided by the government i hope this helps folks to formulate their defenses i m still working on mine and hope to be faxing my congressmen soon d j hagberg hagberg ccit arizona edu finger for info and pgp public key
