This comment on NAI's KRA(P) membership by Will Price <wprice@pgp.com>, a crypto type who works for PGP was forwarded to the ukcrypto list by Ian Goodyer (uk-crypto list admin). Not sure where it was posted originally, or perhaps Will asked Ian to forwarded it. Adam ------- Start of forwarded message ------- Date: Sat, 14 Nov 1998 11:43:07 +0000 To: ukcrypto@maillist.ox.ac.uk From: "Ian D. Goodyer" <goodyer@well.ox.ac.uk> Subject: Re: Escrow - news Here is a response from Will Price who was formally from PGP inc and now of course is with NAI. ian -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I've commented about this on this list before I believe. This appears to be a case of really old news suddenly being dredged up for no apparent wholesome reason -- which strikes me as quite odd because Wired was apparently so eager to break this ancient story that they didn't wait to ask anyone from NAI about it. NAI being listed on the KRA page is *solely* a result of our TIS acquisition. I really doubt anyone here actually called some KRA person and officially renewed our membership. Frankly, I doubt anyone here actually knows who to talk to there -- if there even is a "there". As I have said before, due to the TIS acquisition, NAI now has a bunch of products which contain key escrow features. Eliminating or modifying these features such that they work in a less big brother-like fashion will take significant time -- indeed entire TIS products were based around managing key escrow infrastructures. Don't get me wrong, TIS had a lot of other great products, but it will take time to redesign and rethink some of them in the context of export and key escrow. I'm not sure there's much point in withdrawing from KRA when those products still exist. These issues have no effect whatsoever on the PGP group. As always, we continue to publish full source code which effectively solves all the export issues for us. Robert Guerra wrote:
I just picked this up from another mailing list that I am on. Perhaps the folks at NAI can clarify things?
- ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1998 10:55:06 +0000 From: Ross Anderson <Ross.Anderson@cl.cam.ac.uk> Reply-To: ukcrypto@maillist.ox.ac.uk To: ukcrypto@maillist.ox.ac.uk Subject: Escrow - news
(1) Network Associates has quietly rejoined the Key Recovery Alliance - - see http://www.kra.org.
- -- Will -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 6.0.2 iQA/AwUBNkySo6y7FkvPc+xMEQIuygCfYosXGISVrKd4dYWwM8xOrVdd4WAAn3dT XvDG6FMapZpjmvjucF67fwM5 =xa+R -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- Will Price, Architect/Sr. Mgr., PGP Client Products Total Network Security Division Network Associates, Inc. Direct (408)346-5906 Cell/VM (650)533-0399 <pgpfone://cast.cyphers.net> PGPkey: <http://pgpkeys.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xCF73EC4C> ------- End of forwarded message -------