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by adastra22 654 days ago
Clipper was deliberately backdoored (the key exchange had a trap door), with that backdoor only publicly found after its release. This was more the a just key escrow. Why would that not count?
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The entire point of Clipper was to field cryptography that NSA could break. That wasn't a later revelation. It was the understanding at the time. It's why there were "the crypto wars".