Re: Anti-Electronic Racketeering Act of 1995 (fwd)
At 06:20 PM 7/12/95 -0400, Brian A. LaMacchia wrote:
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.'.
We'll just supply the feds with some of the key testing code developed for collective cracking of RSA-129 or RC4. That code is "a universal decoding device or program." All it takes is a few years... <g> DCF "Since the Occupational Safety and Health Administration started 'protecting' us, there has been no significant decline in work place injuries."
On Thu, 13 Jul 1995, Duncan Frissell wrote:
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 1995 10:12:51 -0400 From: Duncan Frissell <frissell@panix.com> To: bal@martigny.ai.mit.edu Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com Subject: Re: Anti-Electronic Racketeering Act of 1995 (fwd)
At 06:20 PM 7/12/95 -0400, Brian A. LaMacchia wrote:
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.'.
We'll just supply the feds with some of the key testing code developed for collective cracking of RSA-129 or RC4. That code is "a universal decoding device or program." All it takes is a few years... <g>
We need stealth encryption. PERIOD.
DCF
"Since the Occupational Safety and Health Administration started 'protecting' us, there has been no significant decline in work place injuries."
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