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Re: US spying on Europe
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven M. Bellovin)
Tue May 18 18:23:46 1999
To: perry@piermont.com
Cc: cryptography@c2.net
Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 16:54:29 -0400
From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@research.att.com>
In message <871zge5dz0.fsf@jekyll.piermont.com>, "Perry E. Metzger" writes:
>
>A short rant:
>
>I am not the least bit shocked to read, in the link published here
>earlier today:
>
>http://www.nytimes.com/techweb/TW_Report_U_S_Uses_Key_Escrow_To_Steal_Secrets.
>html
>
>that the US has, for some time, been conducting economic espionage
>against European countries, and that an E.U. report has concluded that
>pushing for key escrow and international cryptographic controls has
>been aimed to a large extent, not at preventing "crime", but at
>espionage against "friendly" countries.
Nor is this new, of course. Opponents of key recovery have pointed out
that this was precisely the problem with international deployment. It's
certainly in RFC 1984.
