White House crypto proposal -- too little, too late

[Black Unicorn]

On Sun, 6 Oct 1996, Marshall Clow wrote:

> This is a brilliant move by the government.
> 
> They hold a (small) carrot out to industry:
> 	You can export marginally stronger crypto for 2 years, _if_ you develop a 'key recovery' system. 
> 
> At the end of the two years, they tell computer companies:
> 	Either you implement your system, or you stop exporting your products.
> 	If we don't like the system that you come up with, we won't approve it; and you can't export your (by then) existing products any more.
> 
> 
> The computer industry has to pay the costs for developing this system, _and_, since they developed it, it is really hard for them to complain about the details of it.
> 
> Somebody in Washington has a lot on the ball.

Much of this is Gorelick and her fledglings doings.

> -- Marshall
> 
> Marshall Clow     Aladdin Systems   <mailto:mclow at mailhost2.csusm.edu>
> 

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