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9303.cacm.barlow.bill-o-rights

John Barlow's March 1993 comedic, though sardonic Bill of Rights with preamble.

930416.att.clipper.product

April 1993 article reporting that AT&T will begin using the clipper chip for telephone communications

930416.clipper.chip.announcement

april 1993 white House factsheet regarding the clipper chip encryption technology.

930416.cpsr.call.for.debate

April 1993 article reporting that CPSR calls for public debate on the new govt's encryption initiative.

930416.eff.initial.analysis

april 1993 analysis by the EFF of Clinton's Privacy and Security Proposal expressing deep concerns about clipper policy

930416.new.york.times.article

John Markoff's April 1993 article from the New York Times outlining the debate over security and freedom

930416.white.house.announcement

the April 1993 White House press release explaining clipper policy and expressing the Administrations full support.

930417.boston.globe.article

john mintz's April 1993 articl from the Washington Post summarizing the Administration's clipper policy proposal

930417.toronto.star

April 1993 article in the Toronto Star reporting the administrations announcement of clipper policy.

930417.washington.times

April 1993 article inthe washington times reporting the administrations announcement of clipper policy. inclkudes a more in depth description than the previous two listings and some discussion of the limitations of clipper policy

930419.chicago.tribune

christopher drew's april 1993 article in the tribune describing the clipper policy and explaining some of its weaknesses

930419.communications.daily

April 1993 article in Communications Daily reporting on Clinton's announcement to go ahead with clipper policy

930419.denning.protocol

Dorothy Denning's April 1993 document summarizing the Clipper Chip, how it is used, how programming of the chip is coupled to key generation and the escrow process, and how law enforcement decrypts communications.

930419.information.week

snippet on the announcement of clipper policy from the April 1993 InformationWeek

930419.markey.letter

April 1993 letter from Senator Markey to Ronald Brown (DOC) expressing some concerns about clipper policy and asking questions.

930419.san.jose.mercury.news

April 1993 article overviwing the clipper debate

930420.business.wire

technical information about VLSA fabrication of the clipper chip from April 1993...not too detailed

930420.communications.daily

snippet reporting markey's letter to brown (file above) and the questions about clipper policy that it posed from April 1993

930422.npr.transcript

National Public Radio report on clipper April 1993 reporting on pros and cons of clipper policy

930426.communications.week

Sharon Fisher's April 1993 article discussing pros and cons of clipper policy

930426.communications.week.2

April 1993 editorial expressing concerns over the clipper chip's ability to ensure adequate protection.

930426.macweek.article

Mitch Ratcliffe's April 1993 article expressing concerns about the clipper chips ability to ensure adequate protection.

930426.network.world

April 1993 announcement of the capstone chip and Tesera card expressing concerns that they are no better than the clipper chip.

930427.a2.describes.myk-78

Arthur Abraham's April 1993 description of the process of data encryption used in the clipper chip

930429.kammer.testimony

Raymond Kamer's April 1993 testimony before the subcommittee on telecom and finance decribing the need for clipper policy.

930430.communications.daily

April 1993 article discussing Markey's panel on Technology's realization how dangerous technology has become.

930506.cpsr.foia.results

May 1993 article from Dave Banisar pointing out the connection between NIST and the NSA in the clipper debate which if not illegal, is certainly against the spirit of the law.

930506.eff.letter

This is the letter to the President dated 5/6/93 on Cryptography and Clipper Chip from the digital privacy and security working group

930506.new.york.times

John Markoff's May 1993 article expressing concerns about clipper policy and its similarities to "1984"

930511.diffie.statement

Diffie's May 1993 statement to Boucher's Committee on the negative impacts of clipper policy warning that The decisions we make about communication security today will determine the kind of society we live in tomorrow.

930511.nist.request.for.comments

NIST's May 1993 notice that they will hold public hearings on clipper to get input from the public on what directions the governmnet should go.

930517.nist.answers.rsadsi

NIST's May 1993 answers to various questions posed to them by Jim Bidzos regarding clipper and clipper policy

930527.washington.post

Mintz's and schwartz's May 1993 article outlining the debate between law enforcement security and privacy

930527.white.house.appointement

may 1993 press release stating that the president has appointed Norman Augustine to chair the NSTAC panel.

930528.cpsr.release

CPSR's May 1993 press release reporting their filing of lawsuit against the NSA seeking information in the form of clipper documents

930602.cpsr.statement

same as the above

930604.nist.crypto.resolutions

various resolution decided at the June 1993 Computer Systems Security and Privacy Advisory Board Meeting calling for more study of security policy

930604.spa.statement

June 1993 article reporting that the Software Publishers Association (SPA) explained how continued "munitions" export controls of mass market software with encryption capabilities were seriously harming the American software industry and renewed its call for significant export liberalization of mass market software using DES or other encryption algorithms such as RC2/RC4 at comparable strengths.

930607.computer.world

june 1993 article by Gary Anthes reporting the federal officials are questioning clipper policy but look forward to a solution acceptable to all

930607.infoworld

scott mace and shawn willet's june 1993 article expressing concerns about the long term security of clipper chip and policy.

930607.newsweek.article

June 1993 article discussing clipper policy and both sides of the debate including a sidebar on cryptography and history

930608.nist.proposal.patent.license

june 1993 notification to the public that the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) intends to grant an exclusive world-wide license to Public Key Partners of Sunnyvale, California to practice the Invention embodied in U.S. Patent Application No. 07/738.431 and entitled "Digital Signature Algorithm.

930608.washington.post

John Shwartz's June 1993 article reporting that the Federal initiative to establish a new standard for scrambling electronic communications will be slowed until its ramifications can be more fully studied.

930609.cpsr.testimony

june 1993 testimony of Marc Rotenberg (CPSR) before the subcommitte on telecom and finance expressing CPSR's ardent opposition to clipper policy

930609.diffie.testimony

Whitfield Diffie's june 1993 testimony before the subcommittee on telecom and finance about the business impact of key escrow.

930614.computer.world

gary anthes' june 1993 article describing clipper policy and both sides of the debate surounding it

930614.newsbytes.on.kahn

June 1993 article reporting on David Kahn's speech at the 3rd CPSR Cryptographic Conference

930614.pc.week

kimberly patch's article describing opposition to clipper policy

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