From: hallam@w3.org
Date: Thu, 7 Sep 95 17:14:46 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: GAK Hacks
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>One of their requirements was resistance to static patches, as someone
>else pointed out that is just not possible in software, if some gets
>really bored they can at worst disassemble the entire thing, and
>re-write it from scratch without any silly GAK stuff, or with a row of
>00s where the escrowed key goes.

I think I would prefer the escrowed key to a row of 00's, if someone wanted to 
use decode the message they could just use the all 00's key :-)

	Phill