NODE 7ee451e8Re: Sovreign Right of Lawful Access
Mike McNally <m5@vail.tivoli.com>Tue, 28 Jan 1997 22:10:45 -0800 (PST)
Somebody wrote:
>
> This morning at the RSA keynote, David Aaron, the US Crypto
> ambassador quoted the "Sovreign Right of Lawful Access" as
> something that goverments were determined to preserve.
Speaking as a private indiwidual, and not as a drone in the employ
of IBM (don't get me started on the "but wait, key recovery *isn't*
the same as key escrow" hoo-ha), that dude scared the piss out of
me.
As an IBM employee worried about commercial this-n-that, he was
merely depressing.
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Mike McNally -- Egregiously Pointy -- Tivoli Systems, "IBM" -- Austin
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