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Article #1702Re: Senate Bill 266 would require trapdoors in encryption gear
From: Gordon Burditt
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1991 01:01
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1991 01:01
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>It is the sense of Congress that providers of electronic communications >services and manufacturers of electronic communications service equipment shall >ensure that communications systems permit the government to obtain the plain >text contents of voice, data, and other communications when appropriately >authorized by law. I interpret this to mean, in the case of Privacy-Enhanced Mail and crypto hardware that has to have keys supplied by the manufacturer: "Key distribution centers shall keep logs of who is issued what keys, and make such logs and duplicate key hardware available to law enforcement personnel and any Drug Dealers(tm) with enough cash to bribe officers of the key distribution center". It doesn't seem to require a backdoor. Gordon L. Burditt sneaky.lonestar.org!gordon
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!newstop!west!texsun!letni!rwsys!merch!sneaky!gordon From: gordon@sneaky.lonestar.org (Gordon Burditt) Newsgroups: sci.crypt,misc.legal,comp.org.eff.talk Subject: Re: Senate Bill 266 would require trapdoors in encryption gear Message-ID: <53823@sneaky.lonestar.org> Date: 15 Apr 91 01:01:43 GMT References: <17056@hoptoad.uucp> Followup-To: sci.crypt Organization: Gordon Burditt Lines: 18