-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Wed, 19 Jun 1996, Igor Chudov wondered:
Lucky Green wrote: At 16:27 6/18/96, TM Peters wrote:
Speaking to the Commonwealth Club of California in San Francisco, Reno said her plan would require people to register with the new agency the secret codes -- or "keys" -- they use to encrypt messages online.
: The cat is out of the bag. Janet Reno is calling for mandatory Government : Access to Keys. Not that her statement would surprise anyone on this list. : Still, I believe the administration has never before publicly stated that : people will be _required_ to deposit their encryption keys with the : government. I wonder what the penalties for failure to comply with this : requirement will be.
A couple of questions [admittedly, I am not the best expect in American politics]:
1) Is there anything real that individual citizens can do?
Keep your PGP262.zip disks in ziplock bags and cache them in the backyard, forests,The golf courses. Get a GPS location and escrow the locations with with trusted friends using Secret Share. Payout to Jim Bell's AP service. Move to Canada? William Knowles erehwon@c2.org Finger for public key -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBMcke1AURbnwsNLz5AQHmMQQA2TFznKaMSM9uayXkvpcq/SsYg1hLnNKW 4v+NKSAVoDSGyn96VPxH1zEDP+dHk2MS173ocIUcaCm3VzRbBp6qnukAzTjGxjns PVFFS5dsicx+wR4LFxWhUy/7fjvP6BUTLUwPvQGuXZyh8jof1uuL8FYXPtku6tSG a78TvfAgknU= =IZFJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----