Back Xip Clipper Catalan Escrowed Encryption Standard German Clipper Chip Esperanto Chip Clipper Spanish تراشه کلیپر Persian Clipper chip French क्लिपर चिप Hindi Clipper csip Hungarian Chip Clipper Italian クリッパーチップ Japanese
The Clipper chip was a chipset that was developed and promoted by the United States National Security Agency (NSA) as an encryption device that secured "voice and data messages" with a built-in backdoor that was intended to "allow Federal, State, and local law enforcement officials the ability to decode intercepted voice and data transmissions." It was intended to be adopted by telecommunications companies for voice transmission. Introduced in 1993, it was entirely defunct by 1996.