From: "Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law" <froomkin@law.miami.edu>
Date: Thu, 17 Oct 1996 08:53:49 -0700 (PDT)
To: Marshall Clow <mclow@owl.csusm.edu>
Subject: Re: Your editorial in the 10/14 PCWeek
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On Wed, 16 Oct 1996, Marshall Clow wrote:
[...]
> In a paper about privacy and the original Clipper proposal (in 1994) 
...Jan '95 actually...
> A. Michael Froomkin of the University of Miami School of Law pointed out
> that since the entire key-escrow infastructure was created by
> presidential decree, and the proposed key holders were part of the
> executive branch, the provisions for release of the keys could be
> changed at a moment's notice by another presidential decree, which need
> not ever be made public. [ Yo, key escrow dude! Email your key database
> to wiretappers@fbi.gov, and don't tell anyone! ]

I still think this is a major issue; it is one, however, that goes away if
they pass a well-drafted statute.
 
> See <http://www-swiss.ai.mit.edu/6095/articles/froomkin-metaphor/partIC.html#ToC29> for the following quote, and <http://www-swiss.ai.mit.edu/6095/articles/froomkin-metaphor/text.html> 
> for the entire paper. 

You can get a frames version that spearates text and footnotes at
http://www.law.miami.edu/~froomkin/articles/clipper.htm

>(It's very long; but suprisingly readable, given that the author is a law
>professor ;-)

Thanks, I think.

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