At 07:50 AM 12/13/96 -0500, John Young wrote:
12-12-96 "High-Tech Leaders to Facilitate Recovery of Encrypted Information Globally. Key Recovery Alliance Welcomes 29 New Members" The key recovery alliance has more than tripled its membership and identified its charter objectives. + expediting the widespread, global use of strong encryption + evaluating technologies that are flexible and scaleable to meet various changing commercial needs and policies + promoting interoperability between different key recovery and non-key recovery solutions + defining a commercial infrastructure for worldwide development of strong encryption + maximizing security for business
While this will, of course, be obvious to those frequenting CP, notice a curious fact here: The commentary above refers to the organization as a "Key Recovery Alliance." Well, one might normally expect that organizations are usually named based on their primary raison d'etre. Yet, the objectives listed above clearly do not require, or even desire, "Key Recovery." Quite the opposite, in fact. If there was any need to demonstrate the illegitimacy of this arrangement to the press or public, you need merely show that the people and organizations participating in it don't even consider the goal implicit in the name to be a desireable outcome. Jim Bell jimbell@pacifier.com