: From: Eli Brandt <ebrandt@muddcs.cs.hmc.edu> : Tim May said: : > Others here will have a clearer idea than I have, but I don't think a : > "software standard" is what is now being planned. Software-only : > solution cannot possibly have the security that's needed [...] : My reading of the BSA blurb was that software key escrow really is : being planned: "software implementable [and] based on a non-classified : encryption formula". Yes, this sounds pretty silly. I don't see how : you could possibly prevent a rogue phone from interoperating with a : fascistic one. ... except by legislation. Make no bones about it, this is the start of the final attack to outlaw non-escrowed encryption. G