The Clipper Chip Proposal
Richard Johnson
Richard.Johnson at Colorado.EDU
Mon Jul 25 20:10:50 PDT 1994
From the keyboard of: rittle at comm.mot.com (Loren James Rittle) in an
open letter to our Gorewellian vice president:
I also support completely voluntary (i.e. no outside government coercion)
encryption key escrow for all private individuals and private-sector
companies, if they themselves so chose it.
There is, however, no reasonable reason what-so-ever for government to be
involved in this escrow. Just as with escrow of funds during property
transactions, those involved will choose their own non-governmental
escrow agents.
A simple analogy may serve to illustrate this crucial concept for Gore:
If I wish to leave a spare house key with my neighbor while I'm on
vacation, there's no reason I have to also leave a spare key with the
cops.
Rich
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