[105254] in Cypherpunks
Re: Response to Anonymous re: Zero-Knowledge Freedom
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Stewart)
Mon Nov 9 05:15:42 1998
Date: Mon, 09 Nov 1998 00:59:00 -0800
To: Lucky Green <shamrock@cypherpunks.to>, Alex de Joode <usura@replay.com>
From: Bill Stewart <bill.stewart@pobox.com>
Cc: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.981109051708.4366B-100000@pakastelohi.cypher
punks.to>
Reply-To: Bill Stewart <bill.stewart@pobox.com>
At 05:36 AM 11/9/98 +0100, Lucky Green wrote:
>At this point in time, it is probably appropriate to recap a bit of Dutch
>legislative history. Dutch law for a while now required communications
>providers such as telcos to provide subscriber traffic dumps to LEA's upon
>request. When asked to provide IP traffic logs about a particular
>subscriber to Dutch law enforcement, XS4ALL.NL, namely Maurice, refused to
>comply, claiming that the Dutch law was narrowly written to only cover
>telcos, but not ISP's. The courts agreed with XS4ALL.NL's interpretation
>of the law. Subsequently, the Dutch neo-fascist parliament amended the law
>to include ISP's.
I'm glad to hear that XS4ALL's case went right, at least the first time.
Does Dutch law also allow less-directed tapping, e.g. tapping the
web interface to the replay remailer?
In either case, it sounds like we need to make as many tools as possible
use Diffie-Hellman and other forward-secrecy techniques to reduce the
vulnerability to seizure of keys, "Trusted Third Party" key-escrow systems, etc.
Thanks!
Bill
Bill Stewart, bill.stewart@pobox.com
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