burden of proof / keys or plaintext (Re: US Plans for Decryption Orders)

[Brian Morrison]

On Wed, 4 Aug 1999 10:16:16 +0100, Brian Gladman wrote:

>IMHO the reason why the Government wants keys is to listen to ***future***
>exchanges and this won't be satisfied by session keys. Hence I believe that
>it is our personal long term keys that the Government has its eyes on.
>

Yep, it's key escrow by the back door.


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Brian Morrison                                  bdm@fenrir.demon.co.uk

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