[7790] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
I foresee an increased interest in encrypted channels
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ray Dillinger)
Thu Sep 7 15:43:31 2000
Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2000 12:23:34 -0700 (PDT)
From: Ray Dillinger <bear@sonic.net>
To: Matt Crawford <crawdad@fnal.gov>
Cc: cryptography@c2.net
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On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Matt Crawford wrote:
>In the NIPC daily report for 6 Sep., I read
>> (U) (InfoSec News, 5 September) The UK government officially granted
>> itself broad powers [...]. Under a provision of RIP, if a company
>> official is asked to surrender an encryption key to the government, that
>> individual is barred by law from telling anyone, including his or her
>> employer.
One other thought: How are they going to know whom to prosecute if
the warning comes via an encrypted message on Usenet? If they don't
watch the guy every minute, they can't ever tell a warning's been
recieved, much less who sent it.
Bear
