Heh. You read it first in the CyberWire Dispatch Brock and I put out earlier tonight. :) -Declan --- Japanese Data-Scrambling Chip Renews Debate By JOHN MARKOFF W ASHINGTON -- Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. has quietly begun selling a powerful data-scrambling chip set that is likely to undermine the Clinton administration's efforts to restrict the export of the fundamental technology for protecting secrets and commerce in the information age. The existence of the two-chip set, which will have broad potential application for local computer networks, the Internet and telephone switching networks, was disclosed in Washington in a speech Monday at a public policy workshop by the chief executive of RSA Data Security, a Silicon Valley-based company that has frequently dueled with the administration over its export-control policies. [...]