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Clipper chip

The Clipper chip was a chipset that was developed and promoted by the United States National Security Agency (NSA) as an encryption device that secured "voice and data messages" with a built-in backdoor that was intended to "allow Federal, State, and local law enforcement officials the ability to decode intercepted voice and data transmissions." It was…

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Key escrow

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Backlash

Technical vulnerabilities

Lack of adoption

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Clipper chip

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Clipper chip

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related to External links · 30
Clipper chip → AClipper, Archived, C06122418Oral, California, Charles Babbage Institute, Clipper, Encryption Technologies, Exporting Encryption Technologies, He, Hellman, Martin Hellman Oral, Michael Schwartzbeck, Minneapolis, Minnesota, NSA, Palo Alto, Pohlig-Hellman, Ralph Merkle, RSA Data Security, September
related to Key escrow · 20
Clipper chip → At, Clipper, DES, Diffie, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Government, Hellman, If, In, Inc, June, Mykotronx, National Security Agency, NSA, SECRET, Skipjack, The, The Clipper, The Skipjack, VLSI Technology
related to Technical vulnerabilities · 19
Clipper chip → Clipper, Clipper's, Escrowed Encryption Standard, In, It, Key Escrow, Key Recovery, Law Enforcement Access Field, LEAF, Matt Blaze, Moti Yung, Protocol Failure, Skipjack, The Clipper, The Risks, This, To, Trusted Third-Party Encryption, Yair Frankel
related to Backlash · 14
Clipper chip → American, Clipper, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Electronic Privacy Information Center, Further, Internet, John Kerry, Nautilus, Organizations, PGP, PGPfone, Senators John Ashcroft, The, United States
related to Lack of adoption · 11
Clipper chip → As, Internet, Justice, PGP, Secure, Such, The, The Clipper, These, United States Department, ZRTP
related to Clinton Administration · 7
Clipper chip → Clinton Administration, Clipper, Government, The Clinton Administration, They, United States, While
related to Other proponents · 7
Clipper chip → Clipper, Dakoff, Howard, John Marshall Law Review, Stewart Baker, There, Wired

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the Electronic Privacy Information Centerinstance ofBacklashOrganizations0.80text
the Electronic Frontier Foundation challenged the Clipper chip proposalinstance ofBacklashOrganizations0.80text
saying that it would have the effect not only of subjecting citizens to increasedinstance ofBacklashOrganizations0.80text
possibly illegal government surveillanceinstance ofBacklashOrganizations0.80text
but that the strength of the Clipper chip's encryption could not be evaluated by the public as its design was classified secretinstance ofBacklashOrganizations0.80text
and that therefore individualsinstance ofBacklashOrganizations0.80text
businesses might be hobbled with an insecure communications systeminstance ofBacklashOrganizations0.80text
Nautilusinstance ofarguing in favor of the individual's right to encrypt messages and export encryption software.The release and development of several strong cryptographic software packages0.80text
PGPinstance ofarguing in favor of the individual's right to encrypt messages and export encryption software.The release and development of several strong cryptographic software packages0.80text
PGPfone was in response to the government push for the Clipper chipinstance ofarguing in favor of the individual's right to encrypt messages and export encryption software.The release and development of several strong cryptographic software packages0.80text
Clipper chiprelated to BacklashOrganizations0.60section
Clipper chiprelated to BacklashElectronic Privacy Information Center0.60section

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