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Hiawatha Bray's column on key-recovery crypto
Hiawatha Bray <wathab@tiac.net> of the Boston Globe wrote:
>
>I hate to tip folks off as to my column for tomorrow, but that's exactly
>what I'm doing in it. I have written that if the Feds try to impose
>key-recovery crypto on me, I'll start using some encryption program that
>doesn't comply with the law, and I'll send copies of the messages to the
>Feds, so they can come and arrest me. If I really thought they would, I
>wouldn't have written it! But I'll stand by it.
>
Hiawatha, I enjoyed your column (Boston Globe Business Section Sept. 11),
but why don't you announce that you have a PGP key, print it's signature in
a column and ask people to use it to send you news tips? This would enable
a freedom of the press challange to GAK.
>Anyway, I don't presently encrypt my mail. No reason to--I ain't no
>pedophile...;-)
>So if I want to send crypto I must find some partner in crime. Any
>volunteers?
Count me in. My PGP key is available from my home page
http://world.std.com/~reinhold and the servers and its signature is printed
in E-mail for Dummies, 2nd Edition, page 232. People are invited to send me
ideas and tips via encrypted mail for future books.