Re: Gore's "new and improved" key escrow proposal

[gtoal@an-teallach.com (Graham Toal)]

: From: Eli Brandt <ebrandt@muddcs.cs.hmc.edu>
: Tim May said:
: > Others here will have a clearer idea than I have, but I don't think a
: > "software standard" is what is now being planned. Software-only
: > solution cannot possibly have the security that's needed [...]

: My reading of the BSA blurb was that software key escrow really is
: being planned: "software implementable [and] based on a non-classified
: encryption formula".  Yes, this sounds pretty silly.  I don't see how
: you could possibly prevent a rogue phone from interoperating with a
: fascistic one.

... except by legislation.  Make no bones about it, this is the start of
the final attack to outlaw non-escrowed encryption.

G