From: Carl Ellison <cme@cybercash.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 1996 18:34:32 -0800 (PST)
To: Matt Blaze <mab@research.att.com>
Subject: Re: "Cryptography Policy and the Information Economy" draft available
Message-ID: <3.0.32.19961219214823.00a62160@cybercash.com>
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At 04:11 PM 12/19/96 -0500, Matt Blaze wrote:
>I've got a new draft available of my critique of US cryptography
>policy and its impact on the future of the "information economy".
>It summarizes comments I made to a recent meeting of the Computer
>and Communications Industry Association, and is an updated version
>of testimony I gave to the Senate commerce committee earlier this
>year.
>
>Postscript is at ftp://ftp.research.att.com/dist/mab/policy.ps
>ASCII text is at ftp://ftp.research.att.com/dist/mab/policy.txt

Matt,

	I liked your draft except for one thing.  You never mentioned
that the government has never established a legal right to access the
cleartext of an encrypted communication or file.  Perhaps the most
severe flaw in the GAK proposals is that I as a citizen wish
to attempt to keep secrets from the government and to force them to
take me to court to get a judge to demand that I release those
secrets -=- while their proposals are trying to prevent me from
even attempting such.

 - Carl

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