At 06:20 AM 7/25/96 -0400, Jim Ray wrote:

Will Rodger,<rodger@interramp.com> Washington Bureau Chief of Inter@ctive Week, wrote: <snips>

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Administration officials didn't return calls for comment, but it's clear that the Clinton-Gore team have their first "testbed" for trying out key recovery, or key escrow, proposals.

Hmmm. A new meme, "key recovery" is lots better than "key escrow," but I still wonder if I'm ever gonna see a journalist say, "'GAK,' or Govt. Access to Keys for cryptography."

I doubt we'll see many non-cyber-journalists saying "GAK", at least in print :-) But the name "Clipper III" seems to be catching on fairly well, which has the added benefit if connoting "yet another key-grabbing attempt after the previous two failures", which I like a lot. Key recovery is at least quasi-honest, unlike "key escrow"; I'd tend to call the Clintonista's scheme "key registration" though I've generally found that "master key system" gets the point across adequately. # Thanks; Bill # Bill Stewart +1-415-442-2215 stewarts@ix.netcom.com # http://www.idiom.com/~wcs # Confuse Authority!