Re: Federal key registration agency

[Anonymous User <nobody@c2.org>]

>Compuserve Online Today Daily Edition, 15 June 1996:
>
>Speaking to the Commonwealth Club of California in San Francisco, Reno said
>her plan would require people to register with the new agency the secret
>codes -- or "keys" -- they use to encrypt messages online.
>
>Reporting on this speech, Sandra Ann Harris of United Press International
>adds, "Federal authorities could then obtain the information they need to
>decipher the encryptions using a court order and secretly monitor electronic
>communication on the Internet the same way wiretaps are used to monitor
>telephone conversations of suspected criminals."

   Consider the logic of this statement.  If some *criminal* has registered his/her secret key with the government, then why the hell would s/he then encrypt an incrimating message knowing the government could crack it?!
   Great plan, Janet.....


Medea