[52640] in Cypherpunks
Re: So, what crypto legislation (if any) is necessary? (Was List O' , shame)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Simon Spero)
Tue Mar 26 00:41:34 1996
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 1996 21:20:06 -0800 (PST)
From: Simon Spero <ses@tipper.oit.unc.edu>
To: Bill Frantz <frantz@netcom.com>
Cc: Black Unicorn <unicorn@schloss.li>, cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <199603252350.PAA08745@netcom5.netcom.com>
On Mon, 25 Mar 1996, Bill Frantz wrote:
> At 1:32 PM 3/25/96 -0500, Black Unicorn wrote:
> to type them. Since storage was limited, and old messages were purged from
> the system it also had the effect that anti-trust discovery would have
> nothing to discover.
Hmmm - that's another issue; what about diffie hellman with ephemeral
keys? Once the transaction is complete, unless you keep a copy of the key,
even you can't decrypt that session. Would a law requiring you to keep a
copy of the keys be important. It would have the advantage of allowing
a sub-poena to be more restrictive than "just hand over your private
key", but it's a pretty heavy (undue?) burden.
Simon
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