harka@nycmetro.com wrote:
In> WASHINGTON - The Clinton administration plans to introduce In> legislation soon that would clearly affirm that encryption users in In> this country are free to use any type or strength of encryption In> technology, a senior administration official said.
Obviously, by making a law, that strangely enough tries to legalize, what is legal already, the administration is trying to bait people into "voluntary" key escrow, which are in my opinion the actual main points of the law...
What a bunch of bullshit. Now, that the backdoor "Clipper" doesn't work due to enough awareness, they now try all the windows of the house of cyberspace to do their black-bag job of getting a lock on the front-door, that they'd have a master-key for...
The fact that they are pushing key escrow must indicate that someone has developed a program that they can't crack and don't have a back-door to. I wonder which one it is? -- Toto "The Xenix Chainsaw Massacre" http://bureau42.base.org/public/xenix/xenbody.html