🚀 go-pugleaf

David Sternlight (strnlght@netcom.com) wrote:

: If the Democrats obtain a second term, absent new laws, unrestricted
: use of public key systems without PKP's legal interference will
: be possible at that time. Who knows, by then personal computers may
: even be fast enough to permit full RSA use, rather than RSA key encryption
: of DES/IDEA messages. In any case, the issue would need to be confronted
: by both intelligence and law enforcement.
: 
: I predict that unless a key registration law is "sneaked in" there's
: going to be a bitter public battle over this issue during the current
: Clinton administration. Hone your arguments and your
: intervention/lobbying/testimony techniques now, whatever side of this
: you're on.

Crypto was a very hot topic at this year's Hackers Conferene. The
Denning key registration trial balloon came up several times. Mike
Godwin of the EFF told me he expects something similar to the Denning
proposal to be used, even in a Clinton Administration. 

He's talking to folks around D.C. and the consensus is that the
various agencies are pressing for something along these lines.


--Tim May
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