cryptoanarchy.wiki

Arise, you have nothing to lose but your barbed wire fences!

1996-05-31 - Re: NRC Cryptography Report: The Text of the Recommendations

Header Data

From: Jeff Barber <jeffb@sware.com>
To: hfinney@shell.portal.com (Hal)
Message Hash: 1c06f528601a24d3ba68d0672c16f81e7201de89fed93348e518fbc2a8dc7154
Message ID: <199605311124.HAA12879@jafar.sware.com>
Reply To: <199605302304.QAA14424@jobe.shell.portal.com>
UTC Datetime: 1996-05-31 18:56:40 UTC
Raw Date: Sat, 1 Jun 1996 02:56:40 +0800

Raw message

From: Jeff Barber <jeffb@sware.com>
Date: Sat, 1 Jun 1996 02:56:40 +0800
To: hfinney@shell.portal.com (Hal)
Subject: Re: NRC Cryptography Report: The Text of the Recommendations
In-Reply-To: <199605302304.QAA14424@jobe.shell.portal.com>
Message-ID: <199605311124.HAA12879@jafar.sware.com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain


Hal writes:

[ Good critique of NRC crypto report ]

I completely agree.  The *best* that could be said of this report is
"56 bits instead of 40".  B.F.D.  And aside from that one concession,
it's a step backward.


BTW, does it seem to anyone else that recommendation 1 "no law should
bar the .... use of ... encryption within the United States" is
contradicted by recommendation 5.4: "Congress should seriously consider
legislation that would impose criminal penalties on the use of encrypted
communications in interstate commerce with the intent to commit a
federal crime"?  Maybe they meant to say "no law except those we
propose below" :-(.


-- Jeff

Thread