So, what crypto legislation (if any) is necessary? (Was List O' , shame)

[Simon Spero]

On Mon, 25 Mar 1996, Bill Frantz wrote:

> At  1:32 PM 3/25/96 -0500, Black Unicorn wrote:
> to type them.  Since storage was limited, and old messages were purged from
> the system it also had the effect that anti-trust discovery would have
> nothing to discover.

Hmmm - that's another issue; what about diffie hellman with ephemeral 
keys? Once the transaction is complete, unless you keep a copy of the key, 
even you can't decrypt that session. Would a law requiring you to keep a 
copy of the keys be important. It would have the advantage of allowing 
a sub-poena to be more restrictive than "just hand over your private 
key", but it's a pretty heavy (undue?) burden. 

Simon

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