White House crypto proposal -- too little, too late

[Joe Shea]

	Declan, how does your list work?  Do you only publish comments 
that agree with you?  I didn't see my first two, and this one only came 
with your response.  Is this your version of freedom of the press, or what?

Joe Shea
Editor-in-Chief
The American Reporter
joeshea at netcom.com
http://www.newshare.com:9999


On Wed, 2 Oct 1996, Declan McCullagh wrote:

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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Tue, 1 Oct 1996 20:19:16 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Declan McCullagh <declan at well.com>
> To: fight-censorship at vorlon.mit.edu
> Cc: joeshea at netcom.com
> Subject: Re: White House crypto proposal -- too little, too late
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> [Joe, this may be yet another area where we disagree. It represents a
> power grab by law enforcement; the infrastructure is prone to failure
> and can be compromised; it's more government meddling and coercion and
> more restrictions on free speech; the Fed bureaucrats controlling this
> are vulnerable to special-interest lobbying; the Constitution gives
> the Federal government no right to impose such restrictions; the FBI
> has demonstrated that we can't trust the Feds with our most personal
> information; it violates an absolute right to privacy; and it's
> technically impractical for a good number of applications. --Declan]
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> Date: Tue, 1 Oct 1996 15:57:51 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Joe Shea <joeshea at netcom.com>
> To: Declan McCullagh <declan at well.com>
> Cc: fight-censorship
> Subject: Re: FC: White House crypto proposal -- too little, too late
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> 	Declan's most recent piece makes much more sense than the earlier
> one.  He is quite correct in emphasizing the future vulnerability of the
> encryption logarithms rather than centering on whether or not terrorists
> might use them.  By making them impossible to crack without the key, and
> permitting the key to be available to appropriate law enforcement
> authorities when absolutely necessary, everyone's real needs are 
> satisfied, I think.  I enjoyed this report a lot.
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> Best,
> 
> Joe Shea
> Editor-in-Chief
> The American Reporter
> joeshea at netcom.com
> http://www.newshare.com:9999
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