17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
If cellular phones, baby monitors (!) and regular telephones used Clipper-like technology, many citizen-to-citizen privacy worries would be solved since ham radio and scanner operators would be unable to monitor these transmissions.
The same is true if all those transmitters used DES without key escrow -- and, if wireless and cellular phones were to decrypt when they came off the air, there would be no loss of FBI wiretap ability. Today I mailed a formal proposal to that effect (scrap Clipper; replace it with regular DES over the air and clear otherwise; reform the export laws) to NIST with cc: to DERD (at her suggestion). - Carl