[12769] in Cypherpunks
spooks on cypherpunks
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Hughes)
Sat Apr 30 02:52:32 1994
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 94 23:47:00 -0700
From: hughes@ah.com (Eric Hughes)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: Russell Nelson's message of Thu, 28 Apr 94 21:05 EDT <m0pwh1T-000IDpC@crynwr>
>the public reasoning for
>Clipper never includes "Clipper exists to displace ubiquitious public
>key crypto".
That's because it won't. Public key techniques will still be used for
key management and authentication.
The problem with Clipper is that one will have no secrecy with respect
to any sufficiently powerful entity, using the government as a vector.
Eric
