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Re: White House crypto proposal -- too little, too late
On Sun, 6 Oct 1996, Marshall Clow wrote:
> This is a brilliant move by the government.
>
> They hold a (small) carrot out to industry:
> You can export marginally stronger crypto for 2 years, _if_ you develop a 'key recovery' system.
>
> At the end of the two years, they tell computer companies:
> Either you implement your system, or you stop exporting your products.
> If we don't like the system that you come up with, we won't approve it; and you can't export your (by then) existing products any more.
>
>
> The computer industry has to pay the costs for developing this system, _and_, since they developed it, it is really hard for them to complain about the details of it.
>
> Somebody in Washington has a lot on the ball.
Much of this is Gorelick and her fledglings doings.
> -- Marshall
>
> Marshall Clow Aladdin Systems <mailto:[email protected]>
>
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