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In-Reply-To: <199706192203.PAA25585@f30.hotmail.com> Date: Thu, 19 Jun 1997 19:38:36 -0700 To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net From: Bill Frantz <frantz@netcom.com> Reply-To: Bill Frantz <frantz@netcom.com> At 3:03 PM -0700 6/19/97, John Smith wrote: >>Frist also introduced amendments to the McCain-Kerrey >>bill that were accepted: >> >>* Requiring that not any Federally-funded >> communications network, but only ones established "for >> transaction of government business" would use key >> escrow -- thereby jumpstarting the domestic market. > >Will this narrow the bill so it no longer applies to researchers, >students and others who happen to use subsidized networks? If so, >that would take out the worst part of it. Key escrow when you're >sending to the government isn't so bad, since the government can >read your message anyway. There is still the fact the "Escrow Agent" is a target of opportunity. I don't worry about the government reading my tax return, but I certainly want it kept confidential from everyone else. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bill Frantz | The Internet was designed | Periwinkle -- Consulting (408)356-8506 | to protect the free world | 16345 Englewood Ave. frantz@netcom.com | from hostile governments. | Los Gatos, CA 95032, USA
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