1994-06-03 - Re: more info from talk at MIT yesterday.
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From: “Perry E. Metzger” <perry@imsi.com>
To: sommerfeld@localhost.medford.ma.us (Bill Sommerfeld)
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UTC Datetime: 1994-06-03 14:35:04 UTC
Raw Date: Fri, 3 Jun 94 07:35:04 PDT
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From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@imsi.com>
Date: Fri, 3 Jun 94 07:35:04 PDT
To: sommerfeld@localhost.medford.ma.us (Bill Sommerfeld)
Subject: Re: more info from talk at MIT yesterday.
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Bill Sommerfeld says:
> They also had a comment that they considered Blaze's findings to be
> mostly irrelevant, as the only people who would use it would be
> persons who *didn't* trust the escrow system, but *did* trust the
> algorithm...
Since the stated purpose of a voluntary key escrow system is to
provide government tested cryptography that cannot be used against the
government, Matt's result hurts the STATED purpose of the technology.
Naturally they would be unwilling to admit this.
Perry
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- 1994-06-03 (Fri, 3 Jun 94 07:50:44 PDT) - Re: more info from talk at MIT yesterday. - Bradley C Wallet <bwallet@mason1.gmu.edu>
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- 1994-06-03 (Fri, 3 Jun 94 09:52:23 PDT) - more info from talk at MIT yesterday. - Eric_Weaver@avtc.sel.sony.com (Eric Weaver)