[7442] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: FBI involves itself in Verio merger
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Stewart)
Fri Jul 7 10:25:50 2000
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Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2000 00:16:29 -0700
To: Meyer Wolfsheim <wolf@priori.net>, cryptography@c2.net
From: Bill Stewart <bill.stewart@pobox.com>
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At 08:07 PM 7/6/00 -0400, Meyer Wolfsheim wrote:
>> >The FBI contents that in order to protect U.S. facilities, it must be
>> >assured that only U.S.-owned companies can be used to handle domestic
>> >Internet traffic. In the past, the FBI has also insisted that the
>> >companies employ U.S. citizens to handle potential wiretapping activities.
>
>This is why we need "IPsec on Everything". Eliminate the FBI's ability to
>conduct wiretaps, and then there would be no concern about foreign
>companies buying communications providers.
The current UK effort is why we also need "Perfect Forward Secrecy In
Everything";
it's hard to force someone to turn over their decryption keys when their
equipment doesn't store them past a session, and it's easier to argue that
you shouldn't be required to turn over a signature key that can only be
used for forgery
than a decryption key which could reveal past session keys.
Thanks!
Bill
Bill Stewart, bill.stewart@pobox.com
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