On Sun, 6 Oct 1996, Marshall Clow wrote:
This is a brilliant move by the government.
They hold a (small) carrot out to industry: You can export marginally stronger crypto for 2 years, _if_ you develop a 'key recovery' system.
At the end of the two years, they tell computer companies: Either you implement your system, or you stop exporting your products. If we don't like the system that you come up with, we won't approve it; and you can't export your (by then) existing products any more.
The computer industry has to pay the costs for developing this system, _and_, since they developed it, it is really hard for them to complain about the details of it.
Somebody in Washington has a lot on the ball.
Much of this is Gorelick and her fledglings doings.
-- Marshall
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