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RE: France Allows 128 Bit Crypto
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Black Unicorn)
Tue Jan 19 23:52:40 1999
From: "Black Unicorn" <unicorn@schloss.li>
To: <mmotyka@lsil.com>, "Enzo Michelangeli" <em@who.net>
Cc: <cryptography@c2.net>, <privacy@ssrc.hku.hk>
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 22:40:39 -0600
In-Reply-To: <36A53FCE.7E13@lsil.com>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-cryptography@c2.net [mailto:owner-cryptography@c2.net]On
> Behalf Of Michael Motyka
> Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 1999 8:31 PM
> To: Enzo Michelangeli
> Cc: cryptography@c2.net; privacy@ssrc.hku.hk
> Subject: Re: France Allows 128 Bit Crypto
>
>
> Enzo,
>
> > Time to sing the Marseillaise again? :-)
> >
> Hum it softly, maybe,
>
> > - To supplement the current legal framework by the introduction of
> > obligations, together with penal sanctions, concerning the handing-over
> > to the legal authorities, when they require it, of the cleartext
> > version of encrypted documents.
> >
> but this says: "if we want the key you have to give it to us or go to
> jail."
Well, even worse. It implies that you might be compelled to produce the
PLAINTEXT, not just the key. That could present problems for
crypto-protection by multi-jurisdictional key-splitting applications.
Clearly, this has to be nailed down. It could get ugly.
