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From: Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 1997 21:03:25 -0400
U.S. SUGGESTS ALTERNATIVE TO CLIPPER CHIP The Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology will hold a workshop to discuss a new U.S. 64-bit software key-escrow data encryption strategy that would serve as an alternative to the Clipper Chip technology which the Clinton administration had championed up until now. Like the Clipper Chip, the new approach would require encryption keys to be held in escrow but, unlike Clipper, it might allow non-government escrow agents to hold the keys.=A0 Critics of the approach say that since= non-escrow systems are widely available, it makes little sense to promote escrow techniques.=A0 (New York Times 18 Aug 95 C6)=A0 The Business Software= Alliance called the government proposal "encouraging," but suggested the 64-bit limit set on the length of the keys is "unnecessary."=A0 (Wall Street Journal 18 A= ug ************************************************** "Photons have neither morals nor visas" -- Dave Farber 1994 **************************************************
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