Re: Federal key registration agency

At 16:27 6/18/96, TM Peters wrote:

>Speaking to the Commonwealth Club of California in San Francisco, Reno said
>her plan would require people to register with the new agency the secret
>codes -- or "keys" -- they use to encrypt messages online.

The cat is out of the bag. Janet Reno is calling for mandatory Government
Access to Keys. Not that her statement would surprise anyone on this list.
Still, I believe the administration has never before publicly stated that
people will be _required_ to deposit their encryption keys with the
government. I wonder what the penalties for failure to comply with this
requirement will be.

[I have requested a transcript of Reno's speech from the Commonwealth Club.
I will make the relevant parts available as soon as I get it].



-- Lucky Green <mailto:shamrock@netcom.com>
   PGP encrypted mail preferred.
   Disclaimer: My opinions are my own.

Lucky Green wrote:
> At 16:27 6/18/96, TM Peters wrote:
> >Speaking to the Commonwealth Club of California in San Francisco, Reno said
> >her plan would require people to register with the new agency the secret
> >codes -- or "keys" -- they use to encrypt messages online.
> 
> The cat is out of the bag. Janet Reno is calling for mandatory Government
> Access to Keys. Not that her statement would surprise anyone on this list.
> Still, I believe the administration has never before publicly stated that
> people will be _required_ to deposit their encryption keys with the
> government. I wonder what the penalties for failure to comply with this
> requirement will be.
> 

A couple of questions [admittedly, I am not the best expect in American
politics]: 

1) Is there anything real that individual citizens can do?
2) Would it be helpful to kick democrats out of office and replace
them with republicans? In other words, are republicans any better
than democrats in respecting citizens' right to protecting their
privacy from the government?

	- Igor.

On Wed, 19 Jun 1996, Igor Chudov @ home wrote:
> Lucky Green wrote:
> > At 16:27 6/18/96, TM Peters wrote:
> > >Speaking to the Commonwealth Club of California in San Francisco, Reno said
> > >her plan would require people to register with the new agency the secret
> > government. I wonder what the penalties for failure to comply with this
> > requirement will be.
> A couple of questions [admittedly, I am not the best expect in American
> politics]:
 
> 1) Is there anything real that individual citizens can do?
	
	1) Refuse to escrow keys. 
	2) Scream bloody murder about the scheme.
	3) Vote libertarian.
	

> 2) Would it be helpful to kick democrats out of office and replace
> them with republicans? In other words, are republicans any better
> than democrats in respecting citizens' right to protecting their
> privacy from the government?

	There is no difference between pigs and men. At least not to this
donkey's eyes. 

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