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software you want in your own home. 
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:                 It's diabolical. Researchers already have to
:            comply with a legion of rules to qualify for grants.
:            Kerrey's proposed bill, called "The Secure Public
:            Network Act," would add yet another provision to
:            the fine print. It requires that "all encryption
:            software purchased with federal funds shall be
:            software based on a system of key recovery" and
:            "all encrypted networks established with the use
:            of federal funds shall use encryption based on a
:            system of key recovery." Key recovery, or key
:            escrow, technology enables law-enforcement
:            officials to obtain copies of the mathematical keys
:            needed to decipher messages. In other words,
:            someone else keeps a copy of your secret key
:            -- and some proposed bills say that the cops
:            may not even need a search warrant to seize it. 
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:                 What about the penalties for "unauthorized
:            breaking of another's encryption codes?" That
:            would criminalize cryptanalysis, the way to verify
:            the security of encryption software you buy. "The
:            only way to know the strength of a cipher is
:            cryptanalysis," says Marc Briceno, a
:            cryptography guru at Community ConneXion. 
: 
:                 Then there's Kerrey's statement saying "there
:            will be" restrictions on what encryption products
:            you're permitted to buy from overseas firms. This
:            contradicts Justice Department official Michael
:            Vatis, who told me at a conference this year that
:            the Clinton administration did not want import
:            controls. Though Cabe Franklin, spo