[103066] in Cypherpunks
RE: Questions for Magaziner?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Phillip Hallam-Baker)
Sat Sep 19 18:04:26 1998
From: "Phillip Hallam-Baker" <hallam@ai.mit.edu>
To: "Alan Olsen" <alan@clueserver.org>, "Robert Hettinga" <rah@shipwright.com>
Cc: <cypherpunks@cyberpass.net>, <cryptography@c2.net>, <dcsb@ai.mit.edu>
Date: Sat, 19 Sep 1998 17:48:53 -0400
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.980919023009.14249D-100000@clueserver.org>
Reply-To: "Phillip Hallam-Baker" <hallam@ai.mit.edu>
> "With all the demands from Governent to escrow keys, what steps are being
> taken to protect the these keys and/or backdoors from misuse from people
> within the Government and those outside of the Government?"
>
> "Would you use escrowed cryptography for your private communications? Who
> would you trust to hold those keys?"
We have an answer to this one, unfortunately drowned by the various
sex scandals of assorted congressional chairmen (and other sex
scandal trivia).
Mr Freeh recently testified that he wanted access to private
communications and was immediately contradicted by the Vice President
who stated that Freeh was expressing a personal opinion and
not administration policy.
Whitehouse spin or a sign that Freeh is loosing his grip? Freeh's
attempts to ingratiate himself with the republican party have
done him no favours of late.
Phill
