Guy skribis:
What are the most elegant rebuttals to politicians saying we need Key Recovery as a "reasonable balance between the needs of law enforcement vs. freedom of crypto"?
I don't know how elegant it is, but here's my response: Compromising the public's right to privacy gives away not only our own rights, but those of our descendants. The government must make an extraordinary case to justify undermining those rights, and so far it has not done so. The most detailed research on the issue is a study by Dorothy Denning and William Baugh investigating the extent to which crypto has interfered with law enforcement's ability to get convictions: their bottom line was that crypto has not in fact interfered: law enforcement has been able to complete their investigations using other means. There's no demonstrated need for Government Access to Crypto Keys (GACK), so there's no need to compromise away our privacy. Jim Gillogly jim@acm.org