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Re: (Fwd) New crypto bill clears committee

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marc Horowitz)
Sat Jun 21 17:31:04 1997

To: Kent Crispin <kent@songbird.com>
Cc: cryptography@c2.net
From: Marc Horowitz <marc@cygnus.com>
Date: 21 Jun 1997 17:21:25 -0400
In-Reply-To: Kent Crispin's message of Sat, 21 Jun 1997 09:03:49 -0700

Kent Crispin <kent@songbird.com> writes:

>> You have to distinguish between GAK and CACK (Corporate Access to 
>> Corporate Keys).  Many people believe there is a good case for the 
>> latter, but not the former.  In fact, the "11 cryptographers" paper 
>> says this. 

There is a case for CACK for stored data, but not communications.  I
don't recall seeing any such distinction in the McCain-Kerrey bill.

		Marc

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