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Clipper Revived?
From Edupage:
REPLACEMENT FOR CLIPPER
AT&T and VLSI Technology Inc. will collaborate to develop microchips
that use a triple-strength version of DES (data encryption standard),
which previously had been rejected by the National Security Agency.
VLSI is the designated contractor to make the government-favored
Clipper chips, but this latest announcement reveals their doubts over
whether there's a market for the Clipper. "These companies have
basically made the determination that Clipper is dead and there's
going to be the proliferation of encryption anyway, so they might as
well take advantage of it," says one observer, who predicts the market
for such technology "could reach hundreds of millions" of dollars in
annual sales by the end of the decade. (Wall Street Journal 1/31/95
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