Robert Hettinga wrote:
Yup. Looks like Barksdale(?) was right in his Pro-Excrow comments two years ago in Boston after all.
Mr. Weinstein's Black Rhino Ammunition Inc. "Mr. Kevlar" award went for naught, I'm afraid...
While it might be too touchy for Netscaper cryptographers to address openly, I wonder if there is not a scheme afoot to go along with the current restrictions in order to be better positioned to compete with others intending to launch robust encryption as soon as the leak in the dam globally breaks. There may be more to this story than appears in the PR of industry and government. The crypto fight may be a diversion. Suppose the governments intend to relax crypto restrictions once other technologies to monitor electronic transactions are in place and and enforcers have been trained to snare illegal transactors based on physical evidence of crime beyond the digital. Recall that that's what Peter Neumann and others on the NRC crypto panel suggested as an agenda for the FBI to forego undue crypto emphasis. Is it not possible that the US and other nations will allow strong encryption so long as other means are at hand to control any action merely cloaked in encrypted language, as has been done forever with stylistic literature and speech? To, as with its predecessors, tolerate the artist of cryptoanarchy but guillotine the actor.