From: Alex Strasheim <cp@proust.suba.com>
Date: Mon, 4 Dec 95 12:07:53 PST
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: key escrow compromise
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>I tend to agree with Clark in only one regard: the government is going
>to get into the key storage/retrieval business in some form or another
>eventually & inevitably; it's just not stoppable.

I don't understand this attitude at all.

There is no constituency for GAK except for law enforcement.  Everyone 
else hates it.  There isn't any legal or constitutional basis for 
believing that GAK is unstoppable.

The more information people have about GAK the less likely it becomes, 
and more and more people find out about it every day.

Perhaps believing our opponents have unlimited power and influence adds 
to the romance of what we're doing here.  But it's not true.

This is winnable.