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NSA on GAK Risks
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Young)
Mon Apr 13 12:01:49 1998
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1998 20:03:26 -0400
To: cryptography@c2.net
From: John Young <jya@pipeline.com>
Federal Computer Week, April 6, 1998:
NSA report details risks of key-recovery technology
The National Security Agency has prepared a report that may
be the first federal government documentation of the potential
risks posed by the encryption technology that has been at the
center of a raging debate between the Clinton administration
and industry.
The report, "Threat and Vulnerability Model for Key Recovery,"
pointed out that certain law enforcement agents and officials
operating key-recovery centers could pose the greatest threat
to a key-recovery system -- and to the users' data, which is
encrypted by the system -- if proper security mechanisms were
not in place.
Full article:
http://jya.com-krisks.htm (5K)
Any leads on getting a copy of the NSA report would be
appreciated.
