Intellectual Property and Crypto collision

[John Gilmore]

> ELECTRONIC MEDIA PROTECTED UNDER COPYRIGHT LAW
> A presidential task force has recommended that electronic transmission of
> books, magazine articles and software should be classified as copies
> subject to existing copyright laws.   The task force also recommended that
> it should be illegal to make or distribute products aimed at decoding
> encrypted software without the consent of the copyright owner. 

Would this make it illegal to produce tools for decrypting key-escrowed
software?   :-)

	John