At 11:08 PM 9/3/97 -0400, Brian B. Riley wrote:
... hmmmm, immediate *lawful* decryption ... which implies that they plan to end run the Bill of Rights with some law that permits them to walk in and snoop on the spot ... right now to look at my mail which needs no key, just a teakettle, they at least have to stop somewhere and find a tame judge, which removes at least some of the immediacy.
Finding a judge to sign an order to decrypt the email of a suspected child pornographer/drug dealer will take all of 30 minutes. I don't think a 30 minute delay will be of any consequence to the government's agenda. Not to mention that Freeh lied to Congress when he claimed that they would always use a court order. Even today, court orders are not always required for wiretaps. This will be no different for future "mandatory" or "involuntary" GAK. [BTW, does anybody here have any idea why Freeh might stated that he preferred "mandatory" GAK over "involutary" GAK? Just curious...] Back to monkeywrenching, --Lucky Green <shamrock@netcom.com> PGP encrypted mail preferred. DES is dead! Please join in breaking RC5-56. http://rc5.distributed.net/