Excerpt from The Administration's Clipper Chip Key Escrow Encryption Program: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Technology and the Law of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate Incidentally, the administration, has stressed, and I am sure will in testimony today, the security of Clipper Chip. The price for this security is that two Federal agencies will hold a duplicate set of keys to decode any communication encrypted with the Clipper Chip before any wiretap order has been issued. Now, before American citizens and potential customers of Amer ican computer and telecommunications products will see this as the solution to privacy or security concerns, they have got to be assured that iron-clad procedures are in place. We have got to be able to guarantee that, absent a court order, no one is going to be able to decode their private communications except, of course, the person they want to. Otherwise, even law-abiding users are not going to want to use encryption devices with Clipper Chip. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.