Re: Clipper specifics

I'd be surprised if they allow you a month or two for more comments. My current fantasy about Clipper is that the NSA did a deal with AT&T, demanding removal of DES chips in favor of Skipjack, getting AT&T to buy into a limited delay in product introduction with the gov't promising to get the Skipjack standard in place by Summer so that the AT&T phones weren't held up too long. That's all out of my own head, but it hangs together. Does anyone know specifics about AT&T's prior plans? Was there a DES version? - Carl