At 07:00 PM 7/2/96 -0700, Bill Frantz wrote:
At 2:47 PM 7/2/96 -0700, Lile Elam wrote:
The comment I kept hearing over and over was that we have to educate the public about what cryptography is and why it's important to everyone using computers to communicate. This public includes people who are not on the net and those who don't even know what the Internet is.
Absolutely! The image of postcards vs. letters may be the most effective metaphor.
However, that AT+T fellow who revealed the phone records to the militia group would also be an appropriate comparison to destroy the "key-escrow" idea. I assume AT+T had procedures in place which were SUPPOSED TO prevent this. Well, key-escrow agents "will" also have similar procedures. Why should we assume they will be more reliable? Jim Bell jimbell@pacifier.com