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Clipper Chips and Cypherpunks
Lehrer, Dan | October 10, 1994 issue

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The article reports on developments in digital communication system and its impact on society. The shift to a digital world is fundamentally changing the nature of communications. Now data can be transformed by encryption. But by using a powerful software program or computer, chip, one can "lock" it away from anyone who doesn't have the right "key." No longer are powerful computer-based encoding tools under the sole control of the federal government; instead, they are freely available to millions through on-line computer networks. Traditionally, cryptography--the study of secret codes--has been an instrument of war.

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DIGITAL communications; COMPUTER networks; DATA transmission systems; DATA encryption (Computer science); INTEGRATED circuits; INFORMATION technology
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