Re: Britain to control crypto - official (fwd from Usenet)

[Simon Spero <ses@tipper.oit.unc.edu>]

Some more thoughts...

1) What activities will require TTP licencing? Will all certification
agencies be required to be licenced? What about if I sign a friends
key? Or if I hold a key signing party and offer to sign the key of
anyone showing a valid drivers licence or other picture ID?

2) Will all certification agencies be required to require disclosure
of private keying material before issuing a certificate?

3) Will laws be made requiring all commercial transactions using
public key certificates to be performed using certificates issued by
a TTP in order for such transactions to be valid?

4) Will LEAs be permitted to impersonate a non-consenting third party
for the purposes of allowing a conversation to be intercepted?
(blatant violation of the 4th ammendme... oh shit- never mind).

Simon.
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