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Until quite recently, cryptography -- the science of making and breaking secret codes -- was, well, secret. In the U.S. the field was dominated by the National Security Agency, a government outfit so clandestine that the U.S. for many years denied its existence. The NSA, which gathers intelligence for national security purposes...
At the center is the Clipper Chip, a semiconductor device that the NSA developed and wants installed in every telephone, computer modem and fax machine. The chip combines a powerful encryption algorithm with a "back door" -- the cryptographic equivalent of the master key that opens schoolchildren's padlocks when they...
Those who log on are invited to chat about everything from cutting edge CD players and advanced digital phones to the weather in the Bahamas. An average of 25 people have attended the first two meetings.
Photos and infrared images from satellites have long been used to keep watch on Soviet -- now Russian -- missiles and conventional weaponry. Increasingly, ^ they are being called on to monitor arms-control agreements and guard against proliferation of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons. Such images allowed the U.S. not only to...
The new technology would allow access to both voice and data transmissions, as well as to communications transmitted over interactive cable technologies now being developed. In typical political doublespeak, the bill is called the Digital Telephone and Communications Privacy Improvement Act.