On Wed, 16 Oct 1996, Marshall Clow wrote: [...]
In a paper about privacy and the original Clipper proposal (in 1994) ...Jan '95 actually... A. Michael Froomkin of the University of Miami School of Law pointed out that since the entire key-escrow infastructure was created by presidential decree, and the proposed key holders were part of the executive branch, the provisions for release of the keys could be changed at a moment's notice by another presidential decree, which need not ever be made public. [ Yo, key escrow dude! Email your key database to wiretappers@fbi.gov, and don't tell anyone! ]
I still think this is a major issue; it is one, however, that goes away if they pass a well-drafted statute.
See <http://www-swiss.ai.mit.edu/6095/articles/froomkin-metaphor/partIC.html#ToC29> for the following quote, and <http://www-swiss.ai.mit.edu/6095/articles/froomkin-metaphor/text.html> for the entire paper.
You can get a frames version that spearates text and footnotes at http://www.law.miami.edu/~froomkin/articles/clipper.htm
(It's very long; but suprisingly readable, given that the author is a law professor ;-)
Thanks, I think. A. Michael Froomkin | +1 (305) 284-4285; +1 (305) 284-6506 (fax) Associate Professor of Law & Parent of David and Benjamin (9/13/96) U. Miami School of Law | froomkin@law.miami.edu P.O. Box 248087 | http://www.law.miami.edu/~froomkin Coral Gables, FL 33124 USA | It's warm here. And wet. Very wet.