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In <3.0.5.32.19981007090445.008903c0@m7.sprynet.com>, on 10/07/98
at 09:04 AM, David Honig
At 04:32 PM 10/6/98 -0500, William H. Geiger III wrote:
at 11:08 AM, David Honig
said: The WebTV(TM) Network service, combined with the WebTV-based Internet terminals and receivers, is the first communications system permitted by the U.S. government to provide strong encryption for general use by non-U.S. citizens in Japan and the United Kingdom. Such strong encryption allows Japanese and United Kingdom subscribers of WebTV to communicate through the WebTV Network (both within national borders and internationally) without fear of interception by unauthorized parties.
I have my doubts on this. I find it highly unlikely that the FEDs would approve this without some form of GAK built in even if it is not in the form of "key recovery".
I'd guess that the Export control puppets know that the Web-TV hubs will be subpoena-able by the US even in these other "sovereign" nations. The WebTV centralized infrastructure makes this easy.
I have never looked at the WebTV set-up but I am assuming they are running a series of proxy servers which then provide content for the WebTV boxes? Or are they providing an AOL type of thing, with their own proprietary network and gateways to the real world? Exactly what is getting encrypted and what is not in this system? If this is just point to point encryption between the WebTV box & the WebTV hub/proxy/whatever it seems rather worthless IMNSHO. - -- - --------------------------------------------------------------- William H. Geiger III http://www.openpgp.net Geiger Consulting Cooking With Warp 4.0 Author of E-Secure - PGP Front End for MR/2 Ice PGP & MR/2 the only way for secure e-mail. OS/2 PGP 5.0 at: http://www.openpgp.net/pgp.html - --------------------------------------------------------------- Tag-O-Matic: Dogs crawl under gates, software crawls under Windows! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3a-sha1 Charset: cp850 Comment: Registered_User_E-Secure_v1.1b1_ES000000 iQCVAwUBNhuqwo9Co1n+aLhhAQGA8AP/eHyYTMwqVfv07k0nRG3ebWf67Tjw7ObH UEdBwqdf99pJ6HDhcHxz7iqHWT3FHv1B86UXVO2sf8kuZQrSlWOZAxjwZhqQnXTn 7z7RZNe2MEyere8eujTIv4i1pYLKFgFl5vKj3evz5AaILHp8lYl3IASIzbhcP7Dc 8W94T1RhJgI= =TvXZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----