Sovreign Right of Lawful Access

Mike McNally m5 at vail.tivoli.com
Tue Jan 28 20:13:00 PST 1997


Somebody wrote:
> 
> This morning at the RSA keynote, David Aaron, the US Crypto 
> ambassador quoted the "Sovreign Right of Lawful Access" as
> something that goverments were determined to preserve.

Speaking as a private indiwidual, and not as a drone in the employ
of IBM (don't get me started on the "but wait, key recovery *isn't*
the same as key escrow" hoo-ha), that dude scared the piss out of
me.

As an IBM employee worried about commercial this-n-that, he was
merely depressing.

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Mike McNally -- Egregiously Pointy -- Tivoli Systems, "IBM" -- Austin
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