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The ‘Crypto Wars’ of the 1990s are Brewing Again in Washington
Washington Post, September 10, 2015
The ‘Crypto Wars’ of the 1990s are Brewing Again in Washington
[Michael] Nelson, who now works on public policy at CloudFlare, was the Clinton administration’s point person on the Clipper chip — a government-backed piece of technology from the early 1990s designed to give authorities a way to wiretap encrypted phone calls. Here’s how he described the thinking behind it at a New York City Bar Association event in 1995: We set about developing Clipper because we wanted to develop strong cryptography that would not undermine the ability of law enforcement to do its job.