At 9:38 PM -0400 on 5/18/01, Netsurfer Digest wrote: > Newly Declassified Clipper Chip Documents > > The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) has obtained documents >revealing US intelligence policy regarding the use of the Clipper chip. >Those with good memories will recall this mid-'90s US government proposal >for the development and mandated use of an encryption chip that would >allow law enforcement to decrypt all data - and by law it would be all >encrypted data in the US - passing through the chips. The documents, >obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, reveal that the US >considered sharing the technology with countries like China, Syria, and >Pakistan - not exactly paragons of human rights enforcement. It also makes >clear that the intelligent agencies unambiguously planned to mandate the >insertion of the chip into all newly manufactured US phones and computers. >In the face of fierce opposition from the public, the Clipper chip died an >ugly death, but this does lift the veil a bit on an important bit of >computing and crypto history. > Documents: <http://www.epic.org/crypto/clipper/foia/> >http://www.epic.org/crypto/clipper/foia/ > EPIC: <http://www.epic.org/> http://www.epic.org/ -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
