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Date: Wed, 04 Oct 1995 12:58:24 +0100 From: Christian Wettergren <cwe@it.kth.se>
| Sweden: The authorities have not yet said anything at all about | where they stand in the GAK controversy. Probably very few have | heard about it.
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So lets go off and think hard about good (culture-related) arguments why this is a bad idea. We'll gonna have to look really nice, and say some sensible things. :-)
Crypto is used for making sure that insiders get in while outsiders are kept out of encrypted files/messages. Strong crypto does a better job of keeping outsiders out. Things like TIS CKE are mechanisms for making sure that insiders continue to get in, in spite of mishaps with their keys. Any such system can be evaluated on its technical merits (does it really separate the insiders from the outsiders as well as it claims to?) (does it survive various disasters (because if it doesn't survive, it can't keep insiders in)?) This is a separate topic from GAK -- which boils down to the Government's claim that it should be listed as an insider for everybody. That's what needs to be brought to everyone's attention. - Carl +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Carl M. Ellison cme@tis.com http://www.clark.net/pub/cme | |Trusted Information Systems, Inc. http://www.tis.com/ | |3060 Washington Road PGP 2.6.2: 61E2DE7FCB9D7984E9C8048BA63221A2| |Glenwood MD 21738 Tel:(301)854-6889 FAX:(301)854-5363 | +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBMHQP11QXJENzYr45AQGLTwQAnZheg0W7qMbX4SuWExsFuVj9K4bVeBQ0 KV0B+xVY259TMRBU/U6seneQ9hY/xxsqBb+fKLBI99GRcT0+4bun21TprfBiPR2v bsH/ZK6g3v5pexY8NlOv1bl9FIa1EoytMOVAsJhBtW4hddFa+tcsQSRNAWN2yoXk u5cGLzUSIx4= =BY+c -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----