-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- In <1.5.4.32.19970614201321.009a8b38@pop.pipeline.com>, on 06/14/97 at 04:13 PM, John Young <jya@pipeline.com> said:

Secret Squirrel wrote:

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According to a usually reliable contact in a position to know, IBM Friday filed a liable suit against the 11 authors of the study titled "The risks of key recovery, key escrow and trusted third-party encryption" plus their employers and the Centere for Democracy and Technology, which sponsored the report. According to my contact, IBM feels that the report directly targets their own key recovery system, and falsely implies that it isn't reliable. They are asking for unspecified damages.

If this report is true it's worth taking a look at IBM's policy paper "The need for a global cryptographic policy framework" to understand why the key study report is such a threat to Blue's global market strategy:

http://www.ibm.com/security/html/pp_global.html

IBM's economic incentive to attack the report is substantial, not least because it hopes to garner the lion's share of global GAK -- not that that's news.

Has there been any conformation on this? I would like to get in touch with some of my contacts at IBM but would like to have some info on this first. Thanks, - -- - --------------------------------------------------------------- William H. Geiger III http://www.amaranth.com/~whgiii Geiger Consulting Cooking With Warp 4.0 Author of E-Secure - PGP Front End for MR/2 Ice PGP & MR/2 the only way for secure e-mail. OS/2 PGP 2.6.3a at: http://www.amaranth.com/~whgiii/pgpmr2.html - --------------------------------------------------------------- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3a Charset: cp850 Comment: Registered_User_E-Secure_v1.1b1_ES000000 iQCVAwUBM6VncI9Co1n+aLhhAQE7VQQAuDOBM3aqTCbaK/5nPLl1TLaAkHWSIC4h /eOJFw7/EJ1ZQWGj5lxHg2es6+MFSrue5/KnOn0evsJtLnQjX4icYyhzhao2cXYY 9EPaew0FMLHRtJrB0sXlWOeyteRqFstVEkQb7jtqUqxbjNU1A/FZlbr7dclRZ56B nVTBAqZBOzA= =tD2h -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----