Inaccurate study quoting, Re: anti-crypto rhetoric (Ellison,

[Carl Ellison]

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At 01:26 AM 4/6/98 -0700, Paul Leyland wrote:
>Brian Gladman wrote:
>
>> Criminal-to-criminal communications will not be accessible through key
>> escrow since criminals that are clever enough to encrypt their messages
>are
>> certainly not going to use escrowed systems.
>
>Not necessarily true.  If strong cryptography is ubiquitous, even the
>dimmest of criminals will use it in their communications, not knowing any
>better.  If no-one ever truly lost a buck underestimating the intelligence
>of the public, a key-escrowed communications system is going to pull in a
>*lot* of differently-clued criminals.  If a key-escrowed system is not in
>place, even the dumbest criminals will be protected from wiretaps.  Traffic
>analysis is a different matter entirely...
>
>Paul (Devil's Advocate) Leyland

Paul,

	that might apply if strong crypto were automatic: eg., end-to-end for all 
telephone calls.  We are very far from such a widespread implementation of 
crypto.  The closest we come is mandated over-the-air crypto for cellular 
phone calls, but those calls are still available to law enforcement via normal 
land-line wiretaps.

	It might also apply if programs like MS Word were to insist on encrypting 
all files stored from it.  The chance that a user community would tolerate 
such a decision on MS's part is very small.

 = Carl

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