From: jpb@shadow.net (Joe Block)
Date: Sat, 15 Jul 95 10:07:41 PDT
To: jim@acm.org
Subject: Re: Anti-Electronic Racketeering Act of 1995 (fwd)
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>> silly@ugcs.caltech.edu ((me)) writes:
>> Help!   What does GAK stand for?  I've seen it a billion times,
>
>Government Access to Keys; also seen as GACK (Crypto Keys).  This is more
>descriptive and accurate than calling it Key Escrow, since escrow is for
>the benefit of the parties involved in a transaction.  I think it's Carl
>Ellison's invention, and most apt it is.

I like Federal Usurpation of Citizens Keys for Encrypted Discourse, myself.