Clipper chip

English

Etymology

From Clipper, of unknown origin, + chip.[1] (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

Clipper chip (plural Clipper chips)

  1. (computing, historical) A microchip promoted by the US government in the mid-1990s as an encryption device to be used by all telecommunications companies, and having a back door to allow decryption by the government.

References

  1. ^ “Clipper, n.3”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
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