Canada's justice minister preparing bill to limit encryption

[Declan McCullagh]

At 04:53 PM 9/26/01 -0700, Steve Schear wrote:
>At 07:17 PM 9/26/2001 -0400, Declan McCullagh wrote:
>>At 04:06 PM 9/26/01 -0700, Steve Schear wrote:
>>>Wonder how ZKS will handle this?
>>
>>Ah, yes, Canada, land of the free. Didn't you know that Montreal is an 
>>entirely hospitable place for libertarian anarcho-capitalists?
>>
>>Perhaps there will be an exemption in this (admittedly, entirely fuzzy) 
>>proposal for companies that voluntarily escrow their keys with the RCMP.
>
>Perhaps I incompletely understand ZKS' technology.  I thought they have 
>structured their system to deny them data (ZK) which could be escrowed.

Ah, I was joking. But they'll have to find some way to comply (if the bill 
becomes law, hardly a certainty).

-Declan