[67492] in Cypherpunks
Re: White House crypto proposal -- too little, too late
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Black Unicorn)
Mon Oct 7 02:39:52 1996
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 02:17:35 -0400 (EDT)
From: Black Unicorn <unicorn@schloss.li>
To: Marshall Clow <mclow@owl.csusm.edu>
Cc: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>, cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <v03007806ae7e2d1e3663@[207.67.246.99]>
On Sun, 6 Oct 1996, Marshall Clow wrote:
> This is a brilliant move by the government.
>
> They hold a (small) carrot out to industry:
> You can export marginally stronger crypto for 2 years, _if_ you develop a 'key recovery' system.
>
> At the end of the two years, they tell computer companies:
> Either you implement your system, or you stop exporting your products.
> If we don't like the system that you come up with, we won't approve it; and you can't export your (by then) existing products any more.
>
>
> The computer industry has to pay the costs for developing this system, _and_, since they developed it, it is really hard for them to complain about the details of it.
>
> Somebody in Washington has a lot on the ball.
Much of this is Gorelick and her fledglings doings.
> -- Marshall
>
> Marshall Clow Aladdin Systems <mailto:mclow@mailhost2.csusm.edu>
>
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