proposal: commercial data recovery

[Richard Johnson]

At 02:34 -0700 on 10/15/97, Will Price wrote:
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> Adam:
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> The design you have been espousing for the last week or so in your many
> messages takes the power out of the hands of the sender and encourages
> automated violations of the sender's privacy by the recipient (perhaps even
> unbeknownst to the recipient). ...


This is simply a reflection of reality.  The sender has little real control
over what the recipient actually does with any message.  If the recipient
shares the information content, the sender is basically limited to civil or
criminal sanctions after that sharing becomes evident.

Designing a standard for encrypted communications that attempts to fight
that fact will likely be wasted effort.


Richard