Re: So, what crypto legislation (if any) is necessary? (Was List O' , shame)

At  1:32 PM 3/25/96 -0500, Black Unicorn wrote:
>All it would take is one anti-trust case with encryption as a concealing 
>method and people would be busting down doors at night looking for PGP.

Back in the dark ages, IBM built an audio messaging system.  It was quite
popular in "cave of the winds" (IBM headquarters) because it allowed busy
executives to leave audio memos for each other without needing a secretary
to type them.  Since storage was limited, and old messages were purged from
the system it also had the effect that anti-trust discovery would have
nothing to discover.

Regards - Bill


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On Mon, 25 Mar 1996, Bill Frantz wrote:

> At  1:32 PM 3/25/96 -0500, Black Unicorn wrote:
> to type them.  Since storage was limited, and old messages were purged from
> the system it also had the effect that anti-trust discovery would have
> nothing to discover.

Hmmm - that's another issue; what about diffie hellman with ephemeral 
keys? Once the transaction is complete, unless you keep a copy of the key, 
even you can't decrypt that session. Would a law requiring you to keep a 
copy of the keys be important. It would have the advantage of allowing 
a sub-poena to be more restrictive than "just hand over your private 
key", but it's a pretty heavy (undue?) burden. 

Simon

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