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Re: key escrow advocate M&A
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dan Geer)
Mon Feb 23 23:58:28 1998
To: "Marcus J. Ranum" <mjr@clark.net>
Cc: cryptography@c2.net
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 23 Feb 1998 17:21:13 EST."
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Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 23:48:19 -0500
From: Dan Geer <geer@world.std.com>
Now is as good a time and place to ask reactions
to a late night supposition.
Pretty soon now, the lumpen proletariat will be using
a VPN to get from their random hotel room to their
home net, they'll run SSL to some corporate webserver
there, and maybe they'll read and write S/MIME mail
or somesuch via that webserver.
Regardless of the details, I'm guessing that pretty
soon now just plain folks that just plain use ordinary
merchant gear will be putting super-encrypted traffic
on the net whether they meant to or not.
Methinks key escrow is dead, if for no other reason,
by the accumulation of accidental super-encryption.
Like "they" always said, super-encryption hobbles
escrow absent universal real-time surveillance...
John Gilmore, if you're out there, how much does
incidentally super-encrypted traffic count in your
"encrypt 5% of the net" campaign?
It's late...
--dan
