[66973] in Cypherpunks
Re: How might new GAK be enforced?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lucky Green)
Tue Oct 1 14:44:50 1996
Date: Tue, 1 Oct 1996 11:18:18 -0700 (PDT)
From: Lucky Green <shamrock@netcom.com>
To: "Timothy C. May" <tcmay@got.net>
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <v0300780dae77032b2bdd@[207.167.93.63]>
On Tue, 1 Oct 1996, Timothy C. May wrote:
> Any other ideas on how the government plans to enforce GAK, to make GAK the
> overwhelmingly-preferred solution?
I am not certain that the USG has to make interoperable software illegal.
It simply can withhold export licenses for products that allow such
interoperability. That might go a long way to incentivizing industry to
cooperate. But I would not at all be surprised if they took stronger
measures.
--Lucky
