Re: NYT on Crypto Bills

[Adam Shostack <adam@lighthouse.homeport.org>]

	Markoff shouyld know better than this.  There is a long
history of business use of codes & ciphers, going back hundereds of
years, and durring the heyday of the telegraph, there were fair size
companies that created codebooks with (locally configurable)
superencipherment systems for the market.

Adam

John Young wrote:

|    Compromise Bills Due on Data Encryption 
|       Industry Opponents and Civil Libertarians Are Lukewarm, 
|       at Best 
|    By John Markoff 

|    Data-coding, or encryption, technology is based on 
|    mathematical formulas that rely on the immense computing 
|    challenge inherent in factoring large numbers. Until 
|    recently, such technology was largely used by military and 
|    intelligence organizations and by some corporations like 
|    banks. As electronic mail and commerce have become 
|    increasingly accessible, however, the technology has become 
|    more controversial. 

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