Abstract. The Law Enforcement Agency Field (LEAF), wliicli in Clipper is appended to the ciphertext, allows the Law Enforcement Agency to trace the sender and receiver. To prevent users of Clipper to delete t h e T,EAF, the Clipper decryption box will not decrypt if the correct LEAF is not present. Such a solution requires the implementation t o be tamperproof. In this paper we propose an alternative approach to achieve traceability. Our solution is based on the computational complexity of some well known problems in number theory. So, our scheme does not require a tamperproof implementation, nor a secret algorithm. Its applications extend beyond key escrow.