Robert Cain writes:
Wow! That procedure...
I'm having great difficulty extracting meaning from your prose, but I think you're saying that you like that the government has escrowed keys to Clipper phones for use in "national emergencies".
Imagine that it is your city that gets a terrorist nuke built in one of its basements.
We don't have many basements in Austin.
Truly secure and easy communication makes that a whole lot easier
Makes *what* a whole lot easier, building the bomb or catching the bombers?
but then since a truly secure box is real simple to make,
Really?
it sort of obviates the reasoning for trying to do the standardization anyway.
Obviates the reasoning? I'm confused.
Anybody who really wants absolute security will be able to get it at some price that won't be too high. :-)
So what exactly are you talking about? Sounds like you're happy the government introduced Clipper because it's so easy for anyone to build secure cryptographic devices. I'm having trouble understanding this.
I would like to propose us the challenge to come up with a way utilizing this crypto technology and signatures and such to guarantee a verifiable trail whenever it is done that is available to any court of law.
Whenever *what* is done? Whenever somebody builds a nuclear bomb?
The implication is clear ... I suggest that, as Tom Lehrer talks about on his album Revisited, we "Be Prepared." :-)
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