-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: cypherpunks@toad.com Date: Wed Nov 20 22:12:52 1996 Hal wrote: <snip>
I can't see the U.S. allowing Libya and similar countries to create policy tokens. The whole point of this exercise is to prevent these countries from being able to use strong crypto. So they will certainly not be on the approved list.
I think Tim was referring to a "Panama" or "'80s Iraq" situation, rather than a stable enemy state like Libya. Unless the hardware has some way of making itself have a short lifetime, there will be problems when U.S. policy changes or when one is stolen. <snip>
Companies which try to sell computers with these chips in them risk getting a "big brother inside" (to use Tim's very effective slogan) reputation. I think this initiative is going nowhere.
Amen. Sometimes these policy initiatives seem so ham-handed that the suspicious side of me wonders "what they're really up to." They can't seriously think they can control this any more than they can control the ocean, at least not without an awesome (even for this century) world-wide police-state. JMR P.S. Please, everyone, try not to feed the flamefest-knights, so they will someday (hopefully) go away. Creative killfiling can only do so much. Regards, Jim Ray DNRC Minister of Encryption Advocacy One of the "legitimate concerns of law enforcement" seems to be that I was born innocent until proven guilty and not the other way around. -- me Please note new 2000bit PGPkey & address <jmr@shopmiami.com> PGP id.A7D63DA9 98 1F 39 BA 93 86 B4 F5 57 52 64 0E DA BA 2C 71 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQEPAwUBMpPItzUhsGSn1j2pAQF19QfQhGqLa5BBoxcPdX+FGyY6zCQY5jOQA5y5 HJjB28jQGGmqiNFpXsqh2UB+aRMCYknWmshG3kBOsPqpQBiIRaHpUalYTsDxdnIA bd8rwHvY8uD6aCKdaU1yAE+fXbdLuwClUYL9SbeoLo/84ITRKWNX8LuBCPF5fROS soRrsx1noLW4V9rFvhYRmFXp7czmHGAl2ItOcndNv1xBLFea8BJ3VdbrNWgTO4rc Q2glxaqMYqd1gF3Q2uFz2u5NLlh0Ba+1MZCF9MJQ1yXdL4N0Ucov5pAeiBWCg8Ef h0BkekE6oiE9OUeu3YUZjVb0V4CcUeejUIYPxj/a97RiiA== =mNwN -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----