nOpposition to
Clipper was widespread
nThe US Gov’t
proposed it as the federal Escrowed Encryption
Standard and rammed it through NIST into FIPS
185 in Feb ’94
nDuring the public
comment period, 300 comments received, only
2 supported it
nNo one bought
Clipper
nAT&T shut down
its product line, offered leftover phones to
employees to get rid of them
nOddly, the proposal
probably did more to galvanize the
strong-crypto community than anything else