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= Clipper chip
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The Clipper chip was a hardware-based encryption device developed by the U.S. government in the early 1990s. It was designed to secure telecommunications while allowing the government to access encrypted communications when necessary. The chip employed a method known as key escrow, where encryption keys were split into two parts: one part was held by the user, and the other by a government authority.