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Re: more info from talk at MIT yesterday.

To: [email protected] (Bill Sommerfeld)
Subject: Re: more info from talk at MIT yesterday.
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 03 Jun 1994 10:34:24 -0400
Cc: [email protected]
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Bill Sommerfeld says:
> They also had a comment that they considered Blaze's findings to be
> mostly irrelevant, as the only people who would use it would be
> persons who *didn't* trust the escrow system, but *did* trust the
> algorithm...

Since the stated purpose of a voluntary key escrow system is to
provide government tested cryptography that cannot be used against the
government, Matt's result hurts the STATED purpose of the technology.
Naturally they would be unwilling to admit this.

Perry

References:
- more info from talk at MIT yesterday.
  - From: [email protected] (Bill Sommerfeld)

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