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To resolve this dilemma, the federal government in 1993 proposed key escrow encryption, an approach, embodied in an electronic device called a "Clipper chip," that makes broadly available a purportedly unbreakable encryption technique (although the code was broken by researchers in 1995) with keys to unlock the information held in escrow for national security and law-enforcement purposes by the federal government. This approach, however, has been unacceptable to civil libertarians and to the international community.

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