[5355] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: Proposed bill for tax credit to develop encryption with
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Russell Nelson)
Wed Aug 4 17:39:19 1999
From: Russell Nelson <nelson@crynwr.com>
Date: Wed, 4 Aug 1999 16:58:49 -0400 (EDT)
To: cryptography@c2.net
In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19990804161317.00ab2820@world.std.com>
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David Jablon writes:
> Amazing! Despite the title, this seems to be a retro-active tax
> break for all developers of snake-oil and other poorly concieved or
> poorly implemented cryptography.
Or for that matter, poorly selling. There's nothing in the bill that
requires that the encryption be otherwise unbreakable (e.g. I could
get a tax credit for implementing a backdoor'ed rot-13) or that anyone
actually buy or use the snake-oil^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hencryption
software.
Just how *would* you put a backdoor into rot-13? Ah! I've got it!
Implement a new, higher security 2rot-13 (apply rot-13 twice, for
double the encryption value).
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