RE: New Threat on the Horizon: Software Key Escrow

[analyst@Onramp.NET (Benjamin McLemore)]

>From: Timothy C. May
>
>Putting Microsoft's feet to the fire, getting them to commit to *not*
>including any form of software-based key escrow in any future releases
>of Windows (Chicago or Daytona) could be a concrete step in the right
>direction. Ditto for Apple.
>................................................
>
>I'm afraid you can't do that, Tim.   You're just going to have to take
>Sandy & Duncan's Seminar on Hard-core Privacy.
>
>:>)
>Blanc
>(I'm checking on getting permission to post an official word from MS)


Any word from Apple? Given their past relationship with RSA (built in to
PowerTalk) and without the threat of an antitrust suit, are they going to
sell out as well?

(I define sell-out to mean unavoidable key escrow built-in to the operating
system--the gov will eventually require that they get a copy in this case,
as others have mentioned)

Tim, it looks like it may not take 6 months after all. When is the Hard
core privacy seminar, anyway?


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Benjamin McLemore  <analyst@onramp.net>