[109062] in Cypherpunks
RE: March 11 column -- "Know Your Customer"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William H. Geiger III)
Tue Mar 9 20:27:15 1999
Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1999 20:05:33 -0500
From: "William H. Geiger III" <whgiii@openpgp.net>
To: Multiple recipients of list <cypherpunks@openpgp.net>
Reply-To: "William H. Geiger III" <whgiii@openpgp.net>
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In <36E5C2AC.31BE10CB@acm.org>, on 03/09/99
at 07:57 PM, Jim Gillogly <jim@acm.org> said:
>The comment period was over yesterday, so now we get to wait and see
>which way they wiggle next. The previous tally on their counter site
>(current as of 26 Feb 1999) was 106,999 comments, of which 33 were in
>favor of the Know Your Customer program. Very reminiscent of the
>reaction to the call for comments on the Escrowed Encryption Standard.
Not a very good sign as they are *still* trying to push key escrow. the
only thing that has prevented them from having it implemented right now
has been technical not political. Unfortunately KYC has no technical
limitations only political.
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