[46694] in Cypherpunks
Re: Crypto Rules Report
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mats Bergstrom)
Sun Jan 7 12:46:57 1996
Date: Sun, 7 Jan 1996 17:44:10 +0100 (MET)
From: Mats Bergstrom <asgaard@sos.sll.se>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <199601060141.UAA21362@pipe1.nyc.pipeline.com>
On Fri, 5 Jan 1996, John Young wrote:
> Report of the Business-Government Forum on Global
> Cryptogoraphy Policy
> Held on 19-20 December 1995 in Paris
Thanks to lmccarth for providing a html version at:
http://www.cs.umass.edu/~lmccarth/cypherpunks/icl.txt
GAK is paraphrased several times in this report from
the OECD meeting. Apparantly, most big Multinational
Cooperations are recognizing the 'legitimate' needs
of law enforcement to 'escrow' keys. Or rather, they
would like to set up internal Escrow Departments and
cooperate with LEA's when lawfully requested to do so.
The statement from SHELL International is interesting.
They can accept 'a trustworthy international key escrow
infrastructure based on X.509 certificates' but they also
need to 'protect their assets against Government intelligence
gathering, organised crime, civil unrest and data privacy
legislation obligations'(!!).
It can thus be concluded that SHELL don't trust (some)
national Governments but would trust a World Government
(without data privacy laws).
'Individuals' are breefly mentioned in the report, without
any mentioning of special treatment, i.e. GAK for all.
Mats
