On 14 Mar 96 at 19:41, jim bell wrote:

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Of course that depends how you give your key to an escrow agent. If it's already escrowed when you buy a phone, for instance...

That's the real danger with any such legislation. Individuals can generally only get things that are manufactured for sale. (You can't buy a car with a 7-cylinder engine, for instance...) If manufacturers are dissuaded from building a good crypto telephone, then key-escrow can be as "voluntary" as you want and you still won't be able to exercise your rights.

You might sill be able to buy an unescrowed crypto-phone. If forgeign companies start selling them, then the gov't will have a hard time preventing domestic companies from manufacturing them and exporting them (in theory...) under the legislation. Rob. --- Send a blank message with the subject "send pgp-key" (not in quotes) to <WlkngOwl@unix.asb.com> for a copy of my PGP key.