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Re: Emphasizing a point by Donald Eastlake re key recovery

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Hettinga)
Tue Sep 23 15:26:05 1997

In-Reply-To: <E0xDQQm-00056G-00@heaton.cl.cam.ac.uk>
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:00:32 -0400
To: cryptography@c2.net
From: Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com>

The very best quote I heard lately on GAK and authentication/signature keys
is something someone else heard at a commercenet conference a while back:

"The Fed don't just want to *get* the evidence. They want to *make* the
evidence."

:-).


Cheers,
Bob Hettinga

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