Bruce Schnier (Author of applied cryptography) and Matt Blaze (Who is a crypto bigwig at at&t) have made it clear that they support key escrow. Both have written letters in favor of the new crypto law, it creates a key escrow system and also other restricts on crypto. The letters are on the CDT homepage and i think were posted here.

WHAT THE FUCK??????????????????????????????????????????

EFF, EPIC, VTW and almost everyone else (except for Bizdos at RSA, hmmmm) have all come out against this piece of shit. But with these so called experts baking it it could pass anyway.

Put your 2 brain cells together and think for a minute. If you read the stuff - you can see that the bill talks about key-escrow, BUT you can escrow the key with yourself if you so desire. It also does not put up any mandates for key-escrow requirements in encryption systems. The bill also will force relaxation of the export restrictions. I hope - you could read and understand that 5 line "executive" summary. Dan ------------------------------------------------------------------ Dan Oelke Alcatel Network Systems droelke@aud.alcatel.com Richardson, TX