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1 total messages Started by kirsten Tue, 14 Aug 2007 06:17

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Author: kirsten
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 06:17

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"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. 
: [snip]
: 
:                 What about the penalties for "unauthorized
:            breaking of another's encryption codes?" That
:            would criminalize cryptanalysis, the way to verify
:            the security of encrypti

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