Federal Key Registration Agency

[William Knowles]

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On Wed, 19 Jun 1996, Igor Chudov wondered:
>Lucky Green wrote:
> At 16:27 6/18/96, TM Peters wrote:
> >Speaking to the Commonwealth Club of California in San Francisco, Reno said
> >her plan would require people to register with the new agency the secret
> >codes -- or "keys" -- they use to encrypt messages online.
> 
>: The cat is out of the bag. Janet Reno is calling for mandatory Government
>: Access to Keys. Not that her statement would surprise anyone on this list.
>: Still, I believe the administration has never before publicly stated that
>: people will be _required_ to deposit their encryption keys with the
>: government. I wonder what the penalties for failure to comply with this
>: requirement will be.
 

> A couple of questions [admittedly, I am not the best expect in American
> politics]: 

> 1) Is there anything real that individual citizens can do?

Keep your PGP262.zip disks in ziplock bags and cache them in the backyard,
forests,The golf courses.  Get a GPS location and escrow the locations with
with trusted friends using Secret Share.  Payout to Jim Bell's AP service.  
Move to Canada?

William Knowles
erehwon at c2.org
Finger for public key




 
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