On Wed, 6 Mar 1996 12:58:20 -0800, you wrote:
Bruce Schnier (Author of applied cryptography) and Matt Blaze (Who is a crypto bigwig at at&t) have made it clear that they support key escrow. Both have written letters in favor of the new crypto law, it creates a key escrow system and also other restricts on crypto. The letters are on the CDT homepage and i think were posted here.
WHAT THE FUCK??????????????????????????????????????????
EFF, EPIC, VTW and almost everyone else (except for Bizdos at RSA, hmmmm) have all come out against this piece of shit. But with these so called experts baking it it could pass anyway.
Maybe the ltrs are a forgery? We should ask them, and if this is true, LETS SEND THEM A MESSAGE!!!!!!!! SWITCH YOUR PHONE SERVICE AND TELL AT&T WHY!!! STOP RECOMMENDING APPLIED CRYPTO (THERE ARE EASIER BOOKS ANYWAY). DEMAND THAT THESE PEOPLE STOP GIVING AWAY YOUR RIGHTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
their addresses are schneier@counterpane.com mab@crypto.com jim@rsa.com
Don't you think you should read the bill prior to condmening those that support it? The bill states "Americans should be free to lawfully use whatever particular encryption techniques, technologies, programs, or products developed in the marketplace they desire in order to interact electronically worldwide in a secure private, and confidential manner;" The bill gives everyone the right to use whatever publically available encryption scheme they chose. The provisions you refer to about key esrow simply require the escrow agent to be responsible in handling your key, this provision is to protect those that DICIDE VOLUNTARILY to escrow keys. In fact, the escrow agent would be criminally liable for handing your key over to someone without a court order. Your assertion that everyone and his borther has rejected the bill is simple non-sense. The VTW and EPIC web pages contain positive, if not rave reviews of the bill. Dan Weinstein djw@vplus.com http://www.vplus.com/~djw PGP public key is available from my Home Page. All opinions expressed above are mine. "I understand by 'freedom of Spirit' something quite definite - the unconditional will to say No, where it is dangerous to say No. Friedrich Nietzsche