CIA 4 Nags: Hackers Crypto Y2K Foreigners

[Ernest Hua]

I just don't understand how, in 1998, anyone could let Tenet get away
with a claim about key recovery like this.  Didn't anyone ask him how he
expected high-tech hackers (especially those possibly aided by foreign
intelligence agencies) to use key recovery?

Ern

	-----Original Message-----
	From:	John Young [SMTP:jya at pipeline.com]
	Sent:	Thursday, June 25, 1998 5:37 AM
	To:	cypherpunks at toad.com
	Subject:	CIA 4 Nags: Hackers Crypto Y2K Foreigners


	June 24, 1998
	CIA Head Forsees Better Hackers
	Filed at 5:43 p.m. EDT
	By The Associated Press

	WASHINGTON (AP) -- Intrusion into government computers 

	[SNIP]

	Unless the computer industry and the government find a 
	legislative compromise, the government could fall victim to 
	hackers able to hide their own actions in impenetrable 
	encryption codes. It may take a major computer-hacker 
	incident to create the political pressure needed to allow
	the government the "recovery" power to access encrypted 
	databases. 

	"There is a train wreck waiting to happen unless we deal 
	with the recovery aspect of the encryption debate," Tenet 
	said.