Re: David Kahn advocates GAK

[Declan McCullagh <declan@pathfinder.com>]

It is indeed a shame, and Carl's response was (of course) excellent.

The last chapter of the revised edition of the Codebreakers is reasonably
pro-government in the way it lays out the issue of key escrow, so perhaps
we shouldn't be surprised. (I'm told that David's sojourn at the NSA
museum was unexciting;  they wouldn't tell him much.) :) 

-Declan



On Wed, 22 Jan 1997, Carl Ellison wrote:

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> It might also be that David's year long sabatical at NSA's crypto museum 
> which recently ended put him in touch with people who believe in GAK.
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> I found it interesting that he noted the argument that each additional
> day of government access is a good thing.  This is the kind of belief
> we know that NSA holds -- a.k.a. "not on my watch" -- but I haven't seen
> it publicly admitted before.
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>  - Carl
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