[12563] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Gov demanding PGP key.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Carl M. Kadie)
Sat May 21 21:44:01 1994
To: eff-mail-com-priv@eff.org
From: kadie@eff.org (Carl M. Kadie)
Date: 21 May 1994 11:14:18 -0400
bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein) writes:
[...]
>there was a case of a child molester who had encrypted a file (called,
>ominously, "diary") with PGP and they (da gummint) were trying to get
>the encryption code he used for that particular document.
[...]
Contrary to what the NSA would like us to believe this case as nothing
to do with public key cryptography. The alledged molester could have
just as easily used triple-DES, a private-key scheme.
- Carl
See ftp://ftp.eff.org/pub/Publications/Bruce_Sterling/cfp_94_sterling.speech.
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