Tim O'Connor

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Generate your own pair of private and public keys. You will keep the private key for your own use only, protected by a secret passphrase you select. You will eventually release the public key to the world.

In 1994, the Clinton administration abandoned its efforts to introduce the "Clipper Chip" in telephone products. The Clipper initiative would have allowed manufacturers of communications equipment to legally install strong cryptographic features into devices and to sell them domestically and overseas. These devices would transmit encrypted information, so that anyone who managed to tap the telephone line would hear only unintelligible noise. The government, however, would retain "master keys" for each encryption device, to be held in escrow by two government departments.

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