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Re: Anti-Electronic Racketeering Act of 1995 (fwd)

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Subject: Re: Anti-Electronic Racketeering Act of 1995 (fwd)
From: Carl Ellison <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 95 19:27:55 EDT
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In-Reply-To: "Brian A. LaMacchia"'s message of Wed, 12 Jul 95 18:20:07 -0400 <[email protected]>
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>Date: Wed, 12 Jul 95 18:20:07 -0400
>From: "Brian A. LaMacchia" <[email protected]>

>Finally, we begin to see the attack on all forms of un-escrowed
>encryption.  The bill provides an affirmable defense of
>giving the keys to the government ahead of time!
>
>       `(c) It shall be an affirmative defense to prosecution under this
>     section that the software at issue used a universal decoding device
>     or program that was provided to the Department of Justice prior to
>     the distribution.'.


This isn't escrowed encryption being allowed here.  This is straight giving
of keys (or a back door) to the gov't.  Even Clipper fails this test.

 - Carl

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