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Re: Media Advisory: GAK on Dec 5
At 17:26 12/1/95 +0100, Anonymous wrote:
>Nov. 6, 1995
>Contact: Anne Enright Shepherd
>(301) 975-4858
>[email protected]
>
>
> MEDIA ADVISORY
>
> U.S. GOVERNMENT SEEKS PUBLIC COMMENT ON
>
> DRAFT EXPORT CRITERIA FOR KEY ESCROW ENCRYPTION
>
...
>... The exportability
>criteria being proposed are for an expedited licensing review
>process for software key escrow encryption products with keys
>up to 64 bits long.
...
Sounds like they want both GAK and brute force attacks to work. Perhaps
they are worried that Labour will win in Britain and turn off their access
to the British GAK agent.
Bill Frantz