re text of white house announcement and q as on clipper chip encryption in article qnn b ddc sol tis com mjr tis com marcus j ranum writes when you ve got hrh prince of wales saying stupid things over cordless phones it s not hard to imagine that drug dealers child pornographers commies lisp programmers and other threats to the civilized world might transact incriminating business over encrypting cellular phones let s assume for the moment that the system really is secure unless you get both halves of the encryption key from the two independent escrow houses let s say you even trust the escrow houses one is the aclu and the other is the eff and i m not entirely joking about those two names in that case the prince of wales has nothing to worry about on this system indeed as pointed out since the current systems even the current digital systems are very easy to decode right now anybody with an old tv can hear them for most people this will be viewed as an oh goody step upwards and look at how tolerant the public is they re willing to let the neighbours with the radios hear right now it was suggested by one person that a lot of non evidentiary wiretapping is going on right now without warrants because anybody can do it and it s just an ecpa violation this would stop that all tapping would need a warrant or a breach of security at the escrow houses brad templeton clarinet communications corp sunnyvale ca
