17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
Actually, I had heard that there were three different family keys already: US. UK. Sweden. ... and that this indicated that the at least some organizations within these governments had "bought into" the Clipper scheme. The person who told me this claimed that the pressure for key escrow came from much higher levels -- the National Security Council, *not* the NSA -- and that various lower-level functionaries within NIST among others were *not* happy about having to toe the administration line on key escrow. This does not fit well with Gore's recent "good cop" remarks. - Bill