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by IvyMike 4716 days ago
Read up on the Clipper chip: A chip which sort of being promoted to be the "official" way to do crypto in the US. Specifically designed to be decryptable by the NSA via "key escrow".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipper_chip

It died when Matt Blaze figured out a way to trick the clipper chip doing encryption that the NSA could NOT decrypt.
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rozap 4716 days ago
" Then-Senators John Ashcroft and John Kerry were opponents of the Clipper chip proposal, arguing in favor of the individual's right to encrypt messages and export encryption software."

Wow. What happened?

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