Lack of Adoption
The Clipper chip was not embraced by consumers or manufacturers and the chip itself was a dead issue by 1996. The U.S. government continued to press for key escrow by offering incentives to manufacturers, allowing more relaxed export controls if key escrow were part of cryptographic software that was exported. These attempts were largely made moot by the widespread use of strong cryptographic technologies such as PGP, which was not under the control of the U.S. government.
In 1998 Skipjack, the encryption algorithm used in Clipper, was declassified.
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