From: nobody@REPLAY.COM (Anonymous)
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 95 17:30:13 PST
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: GAK Query
Message-ID: <199512110128.CAA13387@utopia.hacktic.nl>
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Steven Miller, in his "Civilizing Cyberspace," remarks in
his coverage of encryption issues that:

   ... the Administration is trying to split the [GAK]
   opposition by working with private industry groups on
   compromise escrow strategies that would let government
   agents see the contents of decoded messages without
   getting access to the escrowed key itself. [p. 306]

Does anyone know more about this tactic, whether it is
being pursued, or the legal and technical procedures for
decoding and seeing the messages?


As previously noted here:

Civilizing Cyberspace:
Policy, Power and the Information Highway
Steven E. Miller (CPSR Board)
Addison Wesley, 1996
ISBN 0-201-84760-4