Stewart Baker on new crypto rules

Black Unicorn unicorn at schloss.li
Thu Nov 21 12:45:09 PST 1996


On Thu, 21 Nov 1996, Jon Galt wrote:

> Date: Thu, 21 Nov 96 11:02:30 EST
> From: Jon Galt <jongalt at pinn.net>
> To: shamrock at netcom.com
> Cc: cypherpunks at toad.com, froomkin at law.miami.edu
> Subject: Re: Stewart Baker on new crypto rules
> 
> > On Wed, 20 Nov 1996, Hal Finney wrote:
> > 
> > Just so we are all clear about what HP is up to: in August, 1996, I
> > attended a presentation by HP's policy person. He was touting the
> > anti-four horsemen properties of HP/TIS/unnamed other's "voluntary" "key
> > recovery"  system. When I pointed out to him that voluntary GAK could not
> > possibly defend against criminals using strong crypto, since such
> > criminals are unlikely to register their keys with the "escrow" agency, he
> > replied: 
> > 
> > "There are many 
> > possible interpretations of the words 'voluntary' and 'mandatory'."
> > 
> > I am willing to testify to this under oath.
> > 
> > I don't know what dictionary HP is using. Orwell himself must have 
> > written it.
> 
> Try Black's Law Dictionary, 6th Edition.  The IRS uses it all the time.

Or my favorate supreme court quote:

Threat of loss, not hope of gain, is the essence of coercion.

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