[44331] in Cypherpunks
Re: Netscape, Corporations, and GAK Support
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James A. Donald)
Fri Dec 1 00:53:45 1995
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 1995 21:46:57 -0800
To: hallam@w3.org, cypherpunks@toad.com
From: "James A. Donald" <jamesd@echeque.com>
Cc: hallam@w3.org
At 03:08 PM 11/30/95 -0500, hallam@w3.org wrote:
>
> Folks, lay of Netscape on this one. [...]
>
> It is the idea that individuals be forced to
> use it for private conversations that is the bad idea.
Jim Clark advocated Governemnt Access to Keys: GAK. He
did not advocate voluntary escrow -- very few people
object to voluntary escrow.
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