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clipper [ˈklɪpə] n
1. (Transport / Nautical Terms) any fast sailing ship 2. a person or thing that cuts or clips 3. something, such as a horse or sled, that moves quickly 4. (Electronics) Electronics another word for limiter ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
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| even wanted to bring back the Clipper Chip," an anti-encryption standard that would have let the feds read any e-mail and snoop on other scrambled communications. Bidzos said that NTT's chips, which have been developed and manufactured by a subsidiary, NTT Electronic Labs, were far more powerful than the so-called Clipper chip, a data-scrambling system that the Clinton administration proposed for the nation's telephone system. The Clipper and Capstone chips also represent only one possible approach to achieving a reasonable balance between unconstrained privacy and the needs of law enforcement and national security, Silvio Micali of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has proposed an alternative scheme - developed well before the Clipper chip announcement - that eschews complicated chips and special hardware in favor of a considerably more flexible, inexpensive software solution. |
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