Dave Banisar quotes FBI documents obtained via the FOIA:
Technical solutions, such as they are, will only work if they are incorporated into *all* encryption products. To ensure that this occurs, legislation mandating the use of Government-approved encryption products or adherence to Government encryption criteria is required.
...meanwhile...
Testifying before a Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on May 3, 1994, Assistant Attorney General Jo Ann Harris asserted that:
As the Administration has made clear on a number of occasions, the key-escrow encryption initiative is a voluntary one; we have absolutely no intention of mandating private use of a particular kind of cryptography, nor of criminalizing the private use of certain kinds of cryptography.
By exactly what mechanism are appointed (hired ?) officials such as AAG Harris supposedly accountable to the public ? Can they be brought up on perjury charges ? Just what real legal recourse do we have against lying scum in the bureaucracy ? Are we stuck unless we can get some Congresscritter to cry foul on the floor of the House or Senate ? -Futplex <futplex@pseudonym.com> "you said too much; and what you said, it was a lie" -EMF