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Article #110Re: A Trial Balloon to Ban Encryption?
From: Joseph F. -Jeff- Hull
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1992 19:31
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1992 19:31
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hal@cco.caltech.edu (Hal Finney) writes:
|> >... The government never tried to get us to "escrow" our
|> >DES keys, ... why
|> >is this idea appearing now instead of fifteen years ago?
unruh@physics.ubc.ca (William Unruh) writes:
|> Because before only banks etc could afford the computers mecessary, now
|> anyone at all can, and the techniques are almost public knowledge.
Well, not quite. In 1978, I (an otherwise ordinary citizen :^) owned a
4Mhz Z80-based CP/M personal computer system that I programmed with the
DES algorithm described in FIPS-46. The cost of this system was well within
the means of middle-class America. You'll have to look elsewhere for an
explanation.
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