[24604] in Cypherpunks
Re: Morality masks technical ignorance
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adam Shostack)
Thu Dec 29 10:41:57 1994
From: Adam Shostack <adam@bwh.harvard.edu>
To: blancw@pylon.com
Date: Thu, 29 Dec 94 10:33:34 EST
Cc: rishab@dxm.ernet.in, cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <199412290747.XAA10148@deepthought.pylon.com>; from "blancw@pylon.com" at Dec 28, 94 11:47 pm
The technical reason to oppose GAK is that it adds points of
failure to a crypto system which need not be there. Those POF are not
adequately tied to the consequences of their actions (releasing a key
improperly), and as such will be used as points to attack the
integrity of the system.
Adam
Blanc wrote:
| Responding to msg by rishab:
|
| I always thought the emphasis on this list was on
| _technological_ rather than _political_ or _legal_ or _moral_
| means to protect privacy and free expression - including the
| current limitations.
| .......................................................
|
| So Rishab - do you think there's any good reason why
| governments shouldn't require the implementation of key escrow
| (GAK) (I mean, aside from what something like the US
| Constitution would have to say about it), or any good reason
| why any cypherpunk should protest it?
|
| The key words in my inquiry are *reason why*.
