Re: Federal Key Registration Agency

[William Knowles <erehwon@c2.org>]

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On Wed, 19 Jun 1996, Igor Chudov wondered:
>Lucky Green wrote:
> At 16:27 6/18/96, TM Peters wrote:
> >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.
> 
>: The cat is out of the bag. Janet Reno is calling for mandatory Government
>: Access to Keys. Not that her statement would surprise anyone on this list.
>: Still, I believe the administration has never before publicly stated that
>: people will be _required_ to deposit their encryption keys with the
>: government. I wonder what the penalties for failure to comply with this
>: requirement will be.
 

> A couple of questions [admittedly, I am not the best expect in American
> politics]: 

> 1) Is there anything real that individual citizens can do?

Keep your PGP262.zip disks in ziplock bags and cache them in the backyard,
forests,The golf courses.  Get a GPS location and escrow the locations with
with trusted friends using Secret Share.  Payout to Jim Bell's AP service.  
Move to Canada?

William Knowles
erehwon@c2.org
Finger for public key




 
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