[66976] in Cypherpunks
Re: Clipper III on the table
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lucky Green)
Tue Oct 1 15:15:18 1996
Date: Tue, 1 Oct 1996 11:53:04 -0700 (PDT)
From: Lucky Green <shamrock@netcom.com>
To: stewarts@ix.netcom.com
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <199610011706.NAA14852@attrh1.attrh.att.com>
On Tue, 1 Oct 1996 stewarts@ix.netcom.com wrote:
> Hip Hip Hooray! Clinton will finally let us use _some_
> 20+year-old encryption code, which has been known to be relatively
> weak for 15 years, as long as we give them all our keys! What a guy!
Note that the second article stated that the administration will allow
the use of stronger cypto than 56 bit once GAK is in place. If this is
true, much of the current industry resistance is likely to evaporate.
Even the promise might suffice.
--Lucky
