dipper

n 1: a ladle that has a cup with a long handle

2: a cluster of seven stars in Ursa Minor; at the end of the

dipper's handle is Polaris [syn: {Little Dipper}, {Dipper}]

3: a group of seven bright stars in the constellation Ursa

Major [syn: {Big Dipper}, {Dipper}, {Plough}, {Charles's

Wain}]

4: small North American diving duck; males have bushy head

plumage [syn: {bufflehead}, {butterball}, {Bucephela

albeola}]

5: small stocky diving bird without webbed feet; frequents

fast-flowing streams and feeds along the bottom [syn: {water

ouzel}]

Clipper

1. An {integrated circuit} which

implements the {SkipJack} {algorithm}. The Clipper is

manufactured by the US government to encrypt telephone data.

It has the added feature that it can be decrypted by the US

government, which has tried to make the chip compulsory in the

United States. Phil Zimmerman (inventor of {PGP}) remarked,

"This doesn't even pass the sniff test" (i.e. it stinks).

{(http://www.wired.com/clipper/)}

{news:alt.privacy.clipper}

2. A compiled {dBASE} dialect from Nantucket Corp, LA.

Versions: Winter 85, Spring 86, Autumn 86, Summer 87, 4.5

(Japanese Kanji), 5.0.

(1995-03-25)