17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
Is this for real? Or did some future Nobel prize winner discover that PGP exists? WIRETAP FLAW NEW YORK (AP) -- A computer scientist reportedly has discovered a basic flaw in coding technology that the Clinton administration has been promoting as a standard for electronic communications. Matthew Blaze, a researcher at AT&T Bell Laboratories, told the New York Times that his research had shown that someone with sufficient computer skills can beat the government's technology by encoding messages so that no one, not even the government, can crack them. The administration has been urging private industry to adopt the so-called ``Clipper chip'' as a standard encoding system.