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Re: Anti-Electronic Racketeering Act of 1995 (fwd)
Duncan Frissell <[email protected]> wrote:
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We'll just supply the feds with some of the key testing code developed for
collective cracking of RSA-129 or RC4. That code is "a universal
decoding device or program." All it takes is a few years... <g>
DCF
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That raises an interesting issue. How difficult to use or how time
consuming can a program or method be to be considered "a universal
decoding device or program." Can I give the feds a program that will
crack my messages in a few days when run on one of their supercomputers?
If this is not acceptable what will be their rational?
Will they have to invent a huge new bureaucracy to manage all these
devices and programs? Theoretically, every person in the US could submit
many different devices and programs. One could bank on the feds losing
or misplacing your program if they were innundated enough. Can you
destroy your only copy of the "universal decoding program" after giving
them their copy? Does every message or file I encrypt need a cleartext
header that describes which of my escrowed devices or programs wil decrypt
it?
There are many problems with this idea of Government Access to Devices or
Programs (GADOP). A toolset that could build many different encryption
and decryption variations based on psuedo-random input may be a good tool
to fight this nonsense.
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