[44368] in Cypherpunks
Re: Netscape gives in to key escrow
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brian Davis)
Fri Dec 1 08:59:34 1995
Date: Fri, 1 Dec 1995 08:55:09 -0500 (EST)
From: Brian Davis <bdavis@thepoint.net>
To: Adam Shostack <adam@lighthouse.homeport.org>
Cc: Jay Holovacs <holovacs@styx.ios.com>, cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <199512010307.WAA18467@homeport.org>
On Thu, 30 Nov 1995, Adam Shostack wrote:
>
> One thing that stockholders do care about is liability. Its
> my (non lawyerly) opinion that anyone implementing GAK without a
> government mandate to do so is opening themselves up to huge liability
> the Clipper database of keys gets out.
Well that would depend on the terms of the agreement to hold the escrowed
keys, wouldn't it? And presumably the GAK keyholder will have lawyers
write the agreement so that it says, in essence, "we will try really
really hard not to let the keys out, but if they get out, our only
liability if to say 'Ooops' followed by a heartfelt apology!"
EBD
>
> Adam
>
> --
> "It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once."
> -Hume
>
>
Not a lawyer on the Net, although I play one in real life.
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