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Make GAK or back doors better? Hell NO!
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no, no, no --we dont try to make GAK 'better' --we dont do it
at all. fuck them and the dirty horses they road in on.
_THEY_, not us, are the four horsemen of the apocolypse.
to the despots in Washington, whose fat heads have never seen
the sunshine, there is only one "gift" --no code. let them
find the dirty handed clods to do their own filthy work --if no
decent programmers are willing to bloody their hands they will
butcher the program more than they would otherwise, and it will
be those miserable bastards who will be begging _us_ for mercy.
if you believe in any freedom -dont be a fucking quisling.
--
"Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other."
--Benjamin Franklin
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on or about 970912:1933
"Brian B. Riley" <[email protected]> expostulated:
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+On 9/12/97 1:31 AM, Anonymous ([email protected]) passed this wisdom:
+ [snip]
+>Now think about this: You're Joe Random Govt. Worker at the
+>official secret key repository, and there's a budget crisis going
+>on - instead of paychecks, you're getting I.O.U.'s. Your terminal
+>has access to thousands, perhaps millions, of secret keys. You grab
+>one of CitiBank's, forge a few transactions, and 30 seconds later
+>your Swiss bank account is a few million dollars fatter and
+>according to the digital signature, the transaction originated in
+>L.A..
+ Please correct me if I am wrong, but could not a GAK backdoor be
+written that will simply permit decryption only of the ciphertext and
+not encryption. Would not this prevent this from happening?
+ Don'tget me wrong. It scares the hell out of me too, but maybe, in
+addition to that various things Tim has suggested we might also
+consider how to make the GAK as secure as cam be to minimize its
+potential for disaster.
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