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Re: Brookings Inst. on crypto: "There are reasonable
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Stewart)
Mon Jul 21 09:51:12 1997
Date: Sat, 19 Jul 1997 00:11:24 -0700
To: John R Levine <johnl@iecc.com>
From: Bill Stewart <stewarts@ix.netcom.com>
Cc: cryptography@c2.net
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.91.970718153541.17269G-100000@ivan.iecc.com>
At 03:37 PM 7/18/97 -0400, John R Levine wrote:
>> only to the proviso that an acceptable key recovery
>> system be maintained with a suitably defined and trusted
>> party (including self-escrow), are headed in the right
>> direction...
>
>Self-escrow? Is this a euphemism for "no public key encryption" ?
No, it means "Keep a copy in your outbox that We can subpoena
or seize by warrant and sign your name in blood that you'll
let Us have it if We ask for it, or, preferably, that We can
steal without asking you first." It's still whining, of course.
# Thanks; Bill
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