From: Duncan Frissell <frissell@panix.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 95 07:13:42 PDT
To: bal@martigny.ai.mit.edu
Subject: Re: Anti-Electronic Racketeering Act of 1995 (fwd)
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At 06:20 PM 7/12/95 -0400, Brian A. LaMacchia wrote:
>Finally, we begin to see the attack on all forms of un-escrowed
>encryption.  The bill provides an affirmable defense of
>giving the keys to the government ahead of time!
>
>            `(c) It shall be an affirmative defense to prosecution under this
>          section that the software at issue used a universal decoding device
>          or program that was provided to the Department of Justice prior to
>          the distribution.'.

We'll just supply the feds with some of the key testing code developed for
collective cracking of RSA-129 or RC4.  That code is "a universal decoding device or program."  All it takes is a few years... <g>

DCF

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