Blanc Weber
blancw at microsoft.com
Wed Jul 27 20:06:49 PDT 1994
From: David K. Merriman
It has been brought up on the Cypherpunks mailing list that Microsoft is
proposing to include public-key escrow as a *built-in* "function" of future
products - Chicago and Daytona have been specifically mentioned.
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No, this is not correct. It was speculation from Tim May on possible
developments, based on his interpretation of recent events and on email
which I sent to him. This email was referring to the fact that his
concerns notwithstanding, it is not an easy thing to implement a
privately-held key escrow system into a desktop operating system, that
Microsoft is not talking about implementing a 'software Clipper', and
is presently only *examining* the international ramifications of
software key-escrow and non-escrowed strong encryption security.
Please give it this question the benefit of the doubt and postpone your
conclusions about this until I can get an official statement, thanks.
Blanc
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