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1996-10-02 - Re: Clipper III on the table

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From: Lucky Green <shamrock@netcom.com>
To: stewarts@ix.netcom.com
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Reply To: <199610011706.NAA14852@attrh1.attrh.att.com>
UTC Datetime: 1996-10-02 02:18:53 UTC
Raw Date: Wed, 2 Oct 1996 10:18:53 +0800

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From: Lucky Green <shamrock@netcom.com>
Date: Wed, 2 Oct 1996 10:18:53 +0800
To: stewarts@ix.netcom.com
Subject: Re: Clipper III on the table
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On Tue, 1 Oct 1996 stewarts@ix.netcom.com wrote:

> Hip Hip Hooray!  Clinton will finally let us use _some_
> 20+year-old encryption code, which has been known to be relatively
> weak for 15 years, as long as we give them all our keys!  What a guy!

Note that the second article stated that the administration will allow 
the use of stronger cypto than 56 bit once GAK is in place. If this is 
true, much of the current industry resistance is likely to evaporate. 
Even the promise might suffice.

--Lucky

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