单词 | clipper chip |
释义 | > as lemmasClipper Chip In full Clipper Chip. A microchip which inserts an identifying code into encrypted transmissions that allows them to be deciphered by a third party having access to a Government-held key.Developed by the U.S. National Security Agency, and proposed by the U.S. Government as a compulsory standard for data encryption technology. ΘΚΠ society > computing and information technology > hardware > [noun] > central processing unit > types of processor microcomputer1956 multiprocessor1961 uniprocessor1963 microchip1969 microprocessor1969 microcontroller1971 micro1978 transputer1978 coprocessor1980 RISC1980 Clipper1993 1993 San Jose (Calif.) Mercury News 17 Apr. 11 d/2 The technology..is a computer chip called the Clipper Chip that scrambles a telephone call or computer message using a secret algorithm. 1993 Sci. Amer. Aug. 97/1 Clipper, as the chip is named, sends out a string of bits called a law enforcement field. Its purpose is to enable the police and the Federal Bureau of Investigation to decode conversations that they wiretap pursuant to court order. 1994 Computing 9 June 3/3 The US government is shrugging off reports that its controversial Clipper encryption technology is fatally flawed. 1997 Internet World Jan. 18/1 Privacy advocates quickly savaged it as another incarnation of the widely derided Clipper Chip initiative. 2001 Amer. Spectator (Nexis) June Vice President Gore called for forcing the ‘Clipper Chip’ into every PC. < as lemmas |
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