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Article #127Re: A Trial Balloon on Registered Keys
From: Mark A Biggar
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1992 01:02
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1992 01:02
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In article <1992Oct28.014927.10360@schaefer.math.wisc.edu> neergaar@schaefer.math.wisc.edu (Dude) writes: >Also, if all the law abiding citizens have handed over their passwords >and you happen upon illicit traffic, you can feel pretty sure that it's >actually illicit. If you just happen upon encrypted traffic, you might >waste a lot of MY taxpayer money finding out that X is having an affair >with Y. Sorry, this doesn't work because you can tell the illicit traffic from the legal traffic unless you already have the keys. Anyone wanting to send illicit messages just registers any key and then uses a different key. Unless you have the key you can't tell if the registered key was used or not. So registering keys only allows you to read the traffic of those people with nothing to hide, so why bother. -- Mark Biggar mab@wdl1.wdl.loral.com
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Newsgroups: sci.crypt Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!charon.amdahl.com!pacbell.com!ames!sgi!wdl1!wdl39!mab From: mab@wdl39.wdl.loral.com (Mark A Biggar) Subject: Re: A Trial Balloon on Registered Keys Message-ID: <1992Oct29.010208.17901@wdl.loral.com> Sender: news@wdl.loral.com Organization: Loral Western Development Labs References: <1992Oct27.143737.1574@guvax.acc.georgetown.edu> <1992Oct28.005847.14096@netcom.com> <1992Oct28.014927.10360@schaefer.math.wisc.edu> Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1992 01:02:08 GMT Lines: 19