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Re: doj_escrow_intercept.procedures (fwd)
Robert Cain writes:
> Wow! That procedure...
I'm having great difficulty extracting meaning from your prose, but I
think you're saying that you like that the government has escrowed
keys to Clipper phones for use in "national emergencies".
> Imagine that it is your city that gets a terrorist nuke built
> in one of its basements.
We don't have many basements in Austin.
> Truly secure and easy communication makes
> that a whole lot easier
Makes *what* a whole lot easier, building the bomb or catching the
bombers?
> but then since a truly secure box is real
> simple to make,
Really?
> it sort of obviates the reasoning for trying to do the
> standardization anyway.
Obviates the reasoning? I'm confused.
> Anybody who really wants absolute security
> will be able to get it at some price that won't be too high. :-)
So what exactly are you talking about? Sounds like you're happy the
government introduced Clipper because it's so easy for anyone to build
secure cryptographic devices. I'm having trouble understanding this.
> I would like to propose us the challenge to come up with a way
> utilizing this crypto technology and signatures and such to guarantee a
> verifiable trail whenever it is done that is available to any court
> of law.
Whenever *what* is done? Whenever somebody builds a nuclear bomb?
> The implication is clear ... I suggest that, as Tom Lehrer talks about
> on his album Revisited, we "Be Prepared." :-)
I think we should start with, "Be Lucid."
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