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Re: SAFE Forum--some comments
At 07:00 PM 7/2/96 -0700, Bill Frantz wrote:
>At 2:47 PM 7/2/96 -0700, Lile Elam wrote:
>>The comment I kept hearing over and over was that we have to
>>educate the public about what cryptography is and why it's important
>>to everyone using computers to communicate. This public includes
>>people who are not on the net and those who don't even know what the
>>Internet is.
>
>Absolutely! The image of postcards vs. letters may be the most effective
>metaphor.
However, that AT+T fellow who revealed the phone records to the militia
group would also be an appropriate comparison to destroy the "key-escrow"
idea. I assume AT+T had procedures in place which were SUPPOSED TO prevent
this. Well, key-escrow agents "will" also have similar procedures. Why
should we assume they will be more reliable?
Jim Bell
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