[44638] in Cypherpunks
Re: Why Netscape employees should not leave
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Broiles)
Mon Dec 4 07:07:56 1995
From: Greg Broiles <greg@ideath.goldenbear.com>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Date: Sun, 3 Dec 1995 16:02:09 -0800 (PST)
Cc: jsw@netscape.com
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> Can't I be a supporter of strong crypto, and also be in it for the money?
> Many people here make good money off of crypto related work. If I'm asked
> to implement GAK in a situation where it is not mandated by law, I won't
> do it.
The last sentence seems backwards to me - mandatory GAK is the real evil, not
non-mandatory GAK. (non-mandatory GAK is just a special case of voluntary
key escrow, where some of us might choose to escrow to /dev/null, some to
their attorney, some to a friend, and some to freeh@fbi.gov.) Non-mandatory
GAK makes me nervous, because it seems susceptible to back-door coercion
("Dear Citizen: We notice that you've turned off GAK. Don't you trust us?
Please write back and tell us why you're no longer letting us have access
to your net traffic. Do you have something to hide?") but mandatory GAK
is the worst-case scenario being implemented immediately.
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