[11680] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Clinton Adminsitration Corporate Network Socialism?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John [Francis] Stracke)
Wed Apr 13 13:41:10 1994
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 1994 09:59:32 +0500
From: francis@avalle.insoft.com (John [Francis] Stracke)
To: com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: Marvin Sirbu's message of Tue, 12 Apr 1994 21:53:02 -0400 (EDT) <Mhep1ym00iV4ACIHhk@andrew.cmu.edu>
>> Any bets on how secure a government-funded security standard is going
>> to be? :-(
>
>Actually, my understanding is that the Commercenet approach is based on
>the use of Privacy Enhanced Mail and RSA public key encryption.
Well and good; but, if the government embeds trapdoors in the
standard, you might as well be using a substitution cypher.
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