Infoworld and Denning's study (fwd)

[Anonymous]

> From: pgut001 at cs.auckland.ac.nz (Peter Gutmann)

> (As a side-note, I find it amusing to read that the government policy relies
> on people handing over their encryption keys to them.  Quite apart from the
> question of why anyone would trust the US government with their keys, there's
> also the small problem that no criminal will ever do this - that's why they're
> criminals after all.  The only ones who'll ever get caught by this cunning
> plan are you and I).

Maybe the government will pass a law requiring criminals to all turn
themselves in. Then we won't need LEA's. (And we will no longer have
a government.)