Here's a little something about the NSA from the latest issue of Wired: pg 25, in the middle type Clipper Purposely Clipped? Sources cloas to those in the know on Captial Hill claim that NSA deliberately sabatoged the poorly considered Clipper encryption chip (rolled out to the Net.public's dismay by the White House early this spring). The NSA, our sources say, would like nothing more than to see the the Clipper chip fail, resulting in the outlawing of encryption altogether ("Gee, we tried..."). The Electronic Frontier Foundation's response to the Clipper plan, which has been in the works for four years and was formulated by the NSA: "We should not rely on the government as the sole source for Clipper or any other chip. Rather, independent chip manufacturers should be able to produce chip sets based on open standards." ----------------------------------------------------------------- While I wouldn't take this as absolute truth yet, it is certainly food for thought. --Phelix /----- P h e l i x ' s P s y c h o t i c P h i l o s o p h i e s -----\ ***************************************************************************** Perfect Paranoia is Perfect Awareness \---------------------------------------------------------------------------/ _____________________________________________________________________________ Tim Nali \ "We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of tn0s@andrew.cmu.edu \ the dreams" -Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory