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Infoworld and Denning's study
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Gutmann)
Mon Sep 8 11:35:57 1997
From: pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz (Peter Gutmann)
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Date: Mon, 8 Sep 1997 13:50:52 (NZST)
Infoworld NZ has just published an awful article (written by US reporter Sari
Kalin and titled "Criminals Eyeing Encryption"), which emphasises repeatedly
that encryption is a major problem just waiting to happen, using Dorothy
Dennings report as a basis. This represents a rather ugly way to interpret
the report (and, presumably, an attempt by the USG to recover something from
a report which was supposed to come down firmly in favour of crypto
restrictions but didn't). I'll be writing to Infoworld NZ a little later on
to try to straighten things out, but it may be worthwhile for someone in the
US to contact Infoworld over there as well to set things straight. Has anyone
already written/published a rebuttal of this sort of article? If noone's done
it, I'll post my version here when it's ready.
Peter.
