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Re: France Allows 128 Bit Crypto
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Motyka)
Wed Jan 20 01:39:45 1999
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 18:30:38 -0800
From: Michael Motyka <mmotyka@lsil.com>
Reply-To: mmotyka@lsil.com
To: Enzo Michelangeli <em@who.net>
Cc: cryptography@c2.net, privacy@ssrc.hku.hk
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."
This offers privacy from all but the government. It's an improvement but
you can't have real privacy until you can think of the stored encrypted
data as having no significance except for the literal and the plaintext
as an extension of your memory. In addition, the right to keep your
mouth shut and keep your "freedom" has to remain intact.
Mike
