Access to Plaintext: An Obvious Consequence

[Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com>]

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From: Somebody
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 1997 10:12:47 -0400 (EDT)
To: rah@shipwright.com
Subject: Access to Plaintext:  An Obvious Consequence

Bob,

If no encryption product can be sold that can't decrypt everything it
encrypts, then
no public key systems can come to market.  That would effectively eliminate
the entire range of encryption products of interest to you.

Surely, this is clear?


<Somebody's .sig>

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