[7450] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: FBI involves itself in Verio merger
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Damien Miller)
Fri Jul 7 20:06:02 2000
Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2000 09:58:53 +1000 (EST)
From: Damien Miller <djm@mindrot.org>
To: Bill Stewart <bill.stewart@pobox.com>
Cc: Meyer Wolfsheim <wolf@priori.net>, cryptography@c2.net
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On Fri, 7 Jul 2000, Bill Stewart wrote:
> 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.
IANAL but wouldn't the UK's proposed legislation make software that
won't provide access to all keys implicitly illegal?
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