Re: encrypt_1.html

[Toto <toto@sk.sympatico.ca>]

harka@nycmetro.com wrote:
 
>  In> WASHINGTON - The Clinton administration plans to introduce
>  In> legislation soon that would clearly affirm that encryption users in
>  In> this country are free to use any type or strength of encryption
>  In> technology, a senior administration official said.
 
> Obviously, by making a law, that strangely enough tries to legalize,
> what is legal already, the administration is trying to bait people
> into "voluntary" key escrow, which are in my opinion the actual main
> points of the law...
> 
> What a bunch of bullshit. Now, that the backdoor "Clipper" doesn't
> work due to enough awareness, they now try all the windows of the
> house of cyberspace to do their black-bag job of getting a lock on
> the front-door, that they'd have a master-key for...

  The fact that they are pushing key escrow must indicate that
someone has developed a program that they can't crack and don't
have a back-door to.
  I wonder which one it is?
-- 
Toto
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