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Re: White House crypto proposal -- too little, too late
Declan, how does your list work? Do you only publish comments
that agree with you? I didn't see my first two, and this one only came
with your response. Is this your version of freedom of the press, or what?
Joe Shea
Editor-in-Chief
The American Reporter
[email protected]
http://www.newshare.com:9999
On Wed, 2 Oct 1996, Declan McCullagh wrote:
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> Date: Tue, 1 Oct 1996 20:19:16 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Declan McCullagh <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: White House crypto proposal -- too little, too late
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> [Joe, this may be yet another area where we disagree. It represents a
> power grab by law enforcement; the infrastructure is prone to failure
> and can be compromised; it's more government meddling and coercion and
> more restrictions on free speech; the Fed bureaucrats controlling this
> are vulnerable to special-interest lobbying; the Constitution gives
> the Federal government no right to impose such restrictions; the FBI
> has demonstrated that we can't trust the Feds with our most personal
> information; it violates an absolute right to privacy; and it's
> technically impractical for a good number of applications. --Declan]
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Tue, 1 Oct 1996 15:57:51 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Joe Shea <[email protected]>
> To: Declan McCullagh <[email protected]>
> Cc: fight-censorship
> Subject: Re: FC: White House crypto proposal -- too little, too late
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> Declan's most recent piece makes much more sense than the earlier
> one. He is quite correct in emphasizing the future vulnerability of the
> encryption logarithms rather than centering on whether or not terrorists
> might use them. By making them impossible to crack without the key, and
> permitting the key to be available to appropriate law enforcement
> authorities when absolutely necessary, everyone's real needs are
> satisfied, I think. I enjoyed this report a lot.
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> Best,
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> Joe Shea
> Editor-in-Chief
> The American Reporter
> [email protected]
> http://www.newshare.com:9999
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