To: cypherpunks@toad.com Subject: Re: Gore's new and improved key escrow proposal

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Is it just me, or has the administration just delivered the knock-out puch?

It seems that by abandoning the Clipper proposal for a software based system they managed to convince key industry groups (and soon the public?) to end their opposition to the fascist key escrow proposal. Cypherpunks, we are in deep trouble.

I feel the same way. I posted an article from the Mercury News to here about three weeks ago, reporting on a conference between the White House and several private cryptography companies, where they were trying to work out some kind of private sector EES. So, this has been in the works for some time. I can dig up the article for anybody that would like to see it. I'd buy stock in TIS, if it were a public company, I'd guess that they will have the inside track on this. thad Thad Beier Pacific Data Images 408)745-6755 thad@pdi.com