At 01:16 AM 12/9/95 -0800, you wrote:
http://home.netscape.com/newsref/ref/encryption_export.html
NETSCAPE PRESENTS POLICY ON ENCRYPTION EXPORT TO KEY MEMBERS OF THE ADMINISTRATION AND CONGRESS
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This week Netscape representatives attending a government presentation of the administration's proposed Key Escrow Policy for Export detailed the company's firm opposition to the proposed policy. Netscape is opposed to this type of proposal for a number of reasons including its failure to adequately address the issues of acceptability by foreign governments and corporations, significant personal privacy concerns, and the mandatory nature of tying the Exportable Key Size to the Key Escrow Proposal. [rest of position deleted]
While this may be a reasonably good start, what I would have preferred that you say is that if any kind of GAK system is adopted, either foreign or domestic, you as a corporation would ENTHUSIASTICALLY do everything in your power to (_legally_) circumvent, undermine, sabotage, neutralize, and counteract whatever goals the US government has with reqard to implementing GAK. In other words, while you might stay barely within the letter of the law, you would tirelessly exploit every possible loophole (both legal and technical) to ensure that the government NEVER gets its way. I feel certain that with a few imaginative lawyers and programmers (both foreign and domestic), it should be possible to turn this into a "nightmare scenario" for the government.