DTI Policy Response

[Neil Dunbar]

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Ross Anderson wrote:

> Neil Dunbar:
>
> > It would be sufficient to start mandate that government and government
> > funded bodies use licensed TTPs - so that's the universities taken care
> > of for a start (sound FX: large explosion in Pembroke Street).

OK, so loud "get stuffed" would have been a better SFX.

> So if Tony requires recipients of EPSRC dosh to use the GCHQ protocol
> then that's fine by me. I will continue designing and using
> GAK-hostile systems; the academic freedom provisions in my contract of
> employment will stop the Vice Chancellor from sacking me; the
> University's block grant will be axed and a huge cheer will go up from
> all the scientists, engineers and lawyers here.

All of this is true, and fine. I believe that the more enlightenedpersonnel would refuse to comply on well founded principle. Nevertheless
sufficiently many people within the bulk of the Universities *would*
comply. This, as the point of my original post stated, would be enough
to bootstrap the existence of TTPs, which Ken Brown had stated
would be "as rare as hen's teeth"; after that would come the Clipper
chip type requirements for Gov't contracts.

> The modern and
> medieval language people will moan and whine but who cares:

Oh, you flint hearted mathmo, you. :-)

> By the way, if you want to see a really GAK-hostile system, take a look
> at the Steganographic File System, on www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/#Tempest.
> This is just what the doctor ordered for Mrs Roche's dreaded
> `decryption warrant'.

Seen it, read it, like it.

Neil

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