At 05:18 AM 7/15/95 PDT, Jim Gillogly wrote:

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silly@ugcs.caltech.edu ((me)) writes: Help! What does GAK stand for? I've seen it a billion times,

Government Access to Keys; also seen as GACK (Crypto Keys). This is more descriptive and accurate than calling it Key Escrow, since escrow is for the benefit of the parties involved in a transaction.

Or we might use Sandy Sandfort's suggestion "key forfeiture" derived from asset forfeiture. DCF "Isn't it peculiar how nature doth contrive that every boy and every girl who's born into this world alive is either a little libertarian or else a little goddamn fascist bastard." -- Just getting it out of my system before Exon.