Re: KRA_gak

[Adam Shostack <adam@homeport.org>]

John Young wrote:
|  The key recovery alliance has more than tripled its membership 
|  and identified its charter objectives.

|  + promoting interoperability between different key recovery and 
|  non-key recovery solutions 

	Isn't this in direct conflict with one of NIST's criteria?

|  + defining a commercial infrastructure for worldwide development 
|  of strong encryption 
| 
|  + maximizing security for business

	Isn't this in direct conflict with the FBI's criteria? ;)

|  To facilitate meeting these and other objectives, the alliance
|  identified a series of working committees targeted to meet within
|  the next 60 days. Soon after this 60-day period, the now
|  40-member alliance will re-convene to mark the progress of these
|  committees and to identify future benchmarks and deliverables.

	Did they identify the committees, or announce that they will
exist?

Adam


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