Date: Wed, 12 Jul 95 18:20:07 -0400 From: "Brian A. LaMacchia" <bal@martigny.ai.mit.edu>

Finally, we begin to see the attack on all forms of un-escrowed encryption. The bill provides an affirmable defense of giving the keys to the government ahead of time!

`(c) It shall be an affirmative defense to prosecution under this section that the software at issue used a universal decoding device or program that was provided to the Department of Justice prior to the distribution.'.

This isn't escrowed encryption being allowed here. This is straight giving of keys (or a back door) to the gov't. Even Clipper fails this test. - Carl