[1558] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: Nyah, Nyah, I've Got A Secret
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan)
Mon Sep 22 13:48:57 1997
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 1997 10:13:58 -0700
To: Black Unicorn <unicorn@schloss.li>
From: Alan <alan@ctrl-alt-del.com>
Cc: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>, Steve Reid <sreid@sea-to-sky.net>,
Carl Ellison <cme@cybercash.com>, cryptography@c2.net
In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.19970921231126.00697958@schloss.li>
At 11:11 PM 9/21/97 -0500, Black Unicorn wrote:
>My understanding is that the scope of that price is limited to the cost of
>implementing export controls and product specifications, not the cost to
>industry of implementing the plan, or the cost of government to administer
>the management of all the keys, key applications, key change notifications,
>key filings...
Or the price of all the systems that will be hacked due to this bill.
Imagine how much firewall software that will have to be replaced. How many
systems that will be left vulnerable while they are waiting for GAKware.
(Think about all the current system security tools that employ encryption.
All of that will be weakened to satisfy the voyeristic fetishes of the TLA
community.)
This bill should be named the "System Cracker Full Employment Bill".
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