Title: The True Story of the Internet Part II The True Story of the
   InterNet Part III InfoWar Final Frontier of the Digital Revolution
   Behind the ElectroMagnetic Curtain by TruthMonger Copyright 1997 Pearl
   Publishing InfoWar Table of Contents Epilogue gomez Epilogue Subject:
   Re: Just say "No" to key recovery concerns...keep OpenPGP pure From:
   Adam Back To: tcmay@got.net CC: shamrock@cypherpunks.to,
   cypherpunks@cyberpass.net, eric@sac.net Tim May writes: > I'll try a
   different way of making my points... > At 9:12 PM -0700 10/14/97, Lucky
   Green wrote: > >I can't help but see a difference between enforcing to
   encrypt to a > >default key and storing the user's key outright. IMHO,
   the former entails > >less potential for abuse. > > All other things
   being equal, maybe the former is slightly less intrusive > than the
   latter. But maybe not even this, as the two give the same results. >
   After all, what's the real difference between "all mail, incoming and >
   outgoing, must also be encrypted to a CMR key" and "you must deposit a
   copy > of your key with us"? CMR keys are the root of all evil in
   pgp5.5. Without them almost any permutation of recovery care to
   construct would be less useful to the GAK'ers, for all the
   organizational, and inconvenience reasons Tim describes. Governments
   have problems handling complexity. So make their job complex. If you
   were one of the people writing the IRS tax software back in the 60s,
   and you were in deep cover, a proto-cypherpunk, and were bright enough
   to see the future possibilities you would have done all you could to
   fuck up the IRS system. You would have obfuscated the code. You would
   have put logic bombs in it. You would have destroyed the source code
   surreptitiously. (Destroying source code has analogies to destroying
   keys at earliest opportunity, you are destroying something which your
   enemy needs). Any bets as to if any of this actually happened on
   purpose? I reckon so. So, do you all reckon we can make task of
   fielding GAK impossibly complex for such a big disorganized government?
   Adam -- Now officially an EAR violation... Have *you* exported RSA
   today? --> http://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/ print
   pack"C*",split/\D+/,`echo "16iII*o\U@{$/=$z;[(pop,pop,unpack"H*",<>
   )]}\EsMsKsN0[lN*1lK[d2%Sa2/d0 "Last one seen fixing it, gets the
   blame." "The Xenix Chainsaw Massacre" "WebWorld & the Mythical Circle
   of Eunuchs" "InfoWar (Part III of 'The True Story of the InterNet')
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