Media Advisory: GAK on Dec 5

[Bill Frantz]

At 17:26 12/1/95 +0100, Anonymous wrote:
>Nov. 6, 1995
>Contact:  Anne Enright Shepherd
>(301) 975-4858
>anne.shepherd at nist.gov
>
>
>                         MEDIA ADVISORY
>          
>            U.S. GOVERNMENT SEEKS PUBLIC COMMENT ON
>                                
>        DRAFT EXPORT CRITERIA FOR KEY ESCROW ENCRYPTION
>
...
>... The exportability 
>criteria being proposed are for  an expedited licensing review 
>process for software key escrow encryption products with  keys 
>up to 64 bits long.
...

Sounds like they want both GAK and brute force attacks to work.  Perhaps
they are worried that Labour will win in Britain and turn off their access
to the British GAK agent.

Bill Frantz