[83347] in Cypherpunks
Re: Keepers of the keys
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Schear)
Fri Jul 18 20:22:13 1997
In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19970718133642.00b6ee70@dnai.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 1997 15:25:44 -0700
To: Lizard <lizard@dnai.com>, Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>,
fight-censorship@vorlon.mit.edu, cypherpunks@toad.com
From: Steve Schear <azur@netcom.com>
Reply-To: Steve Schear <azur@netcom.com>
At 1:36 PM -0700 7/18/97, Lizard wrote:>Frankly, I find it mildly
>amusing no one has asked the Congressional defenders of key escrow, point
>blank, "What safeguards do you have against keys falling into the hands of
>the next Ames?" Who watches the watchmen?
Why not go one step further and get the strong crypto supporters in the
Senate to tack on an ammendment to the McCain-Kerrey-bill forcing the FBI
and our most secret security agencies to use the very same
government/industry escrow entitites (but not any of the intelligence
organizations themselves) for all their encrypted data storage and
communications traffic and requiring regular GOA compliance reviews.
--Steve
