From tomorrow's NYT:
type: NYT (Copyright 1994 The New York Times) priority: Urgent date: 07-20-94 2114EDT category: Financial subject: BC CLIPPER CHIP RETREAT title: ADMINISTRATION REVERSES ITSLEF ON WIRETAPPING TECHNOLOGY author: JOHN MARKOFF text: In an abrupt and significant reversal, the Clinton administration indicated Wednesday that it was willing to consider alternatives to its Clipper chip wiretapping technology, which has been widely criticized by industry executives and privacy-rights groups. ... I'll leave it to someone else to post the entire article, but the gist is that Gore sent a letter to Maria Cantwell saying that the administration is willing to consider alternatives to Clipper that are based upon nonclassified algrithms, and where the escrow agents are not government agencies. They still insist on an escrow system, however. There's a quote from Marc Rotenberg saying that the escorw requirement is still unacceptable.