We cannot trust the authoritarians' assertions that they have no intention of outlawing cryptographic technologies potentially more secure than the Clipper chip.
Some mightsay that outlawing all unsupervised communication and activities by its citizens is-and always will be-a goal of all governments. Protection from authoritarian eyes is one of the main causes for the ever increasing use of crypto. Government issued crypto can never satisfy the peoples desire to find a means that guarantees secure communications. If the government wants its Clipper scheme to succeed, the government will have to dramatically limit the availability of good crypto. One of the more obious methods to accomplish this is to outlaw non-government approved crypto. -- Marc