[862] in Cypherpunks
Lobbying for Cryptoprivacy, non-U.S.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (E. Dean Tribble)
Fri Jun 4 15:56:36 1993
Date: Fri, 4 Jun 93 11:42:41 PDT
From: tribble@memex.com (E. Dean Tribble)
To: jhart@agora.rain.com
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: Jim Hart's message of Fri, 4 Jun 93 9:43:27 PDT <m0o1era-00002nC@agora.rain.com>
* Try to get key escrow banned *in general*, instead of just from foreign
countries. In smaller countries this will be easier since its doubtful
small governments can set up a spook/chip-maker axis to rival the
NSA/Mykotronx/VLSI axis in the U.S. In fact probably only the U.S.,
cooperating major European countries and Japan have such a capability.
* Be careful with the wording of the legislation; be sure to
specify *key-escrow* and not any other forms of cryptography.
This is extremely dangerous. Much of legislation is compromise. Any
such bill is probably so close to a bill that outlaws cryptography (or
could be interpreted as a precedent for such a bill) that the risks
are probably far greater than the rewards. The strategy the Eric
Hughes proposed sounds much better.
