At 9:59 PM 6/3/96, Deranged Mutant wrote:
On 3 Jun 96 at 11:27, Bruce Baugh wrote:
Date: Mon, 03 Jun 1996 11:27:33 -0700 At 04:33 AM 6/3/96 +0000, Deranged Mutant wrote:
does, it will happen only after the passage of more draconian anti-privacy laws, and the guys working on it will be forced to include sundry backdoor stuff or drop it altogether.
More likely drop it altogether, or be openly admit they were forced to include GAK (people will want the source, anyway).
I can't imagine _any_ set of circumstances which would cause Zimmermann, Atkins (?), Plumb (?), and anyone else who might still be on the PGP development team to include GAK. After all, those heartwarming stories about Burmese rebels using PGP to communicate using laptops in the jungles would then be replaced by: "16 April 1998, A.P., Rangoon, Burma. Internal Security Minister Bopalong Myanmoon announced today that rebel communications were intercepted and decrypted two weeks ago with the cooperation of the International Key Authority. As a result of this raid, 63 rebels were captured, tried, and executed. Visiting Rangoon at the time, U.S. Attorney General Louis Freeh was said to be satisfied that international key escrow was having such positive effects." --Tim May Boycott "Big Brother Inside" software! We got computers, we're tapping phone lines, we know that that ain't allowed. ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay@got.net 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Licensed Ontologist | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."