From: Mike McNally <m5@vail.tivoli.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 1997 20:13:00 -0800 (PST)
To: Somebody <nowhere@erewhon.org>
Subject: Re: Sovreign Right of Lawful Access
In-Reply-To: <199701282156.NAA03998@toad.com>
Message-ID: <32EECE0E.3BA1@vail.tivoli.com>
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Somebody wrote:
> 
> This morning at the RSA keynote, David Aaron, the US Crypto 
> ambassador quoted the "Sovreign Right of Lawful Access" as
> something that goverments were determined to preserve.

Speaking as a private indiwidual, and not as a drone in the employ
of IBM (don't get me started on the "but wait, key recovery *isn't*
the same as key escrow" hoo-ha), that dude scared the piss out of
me.

As an IBM employee worried about commercial this-n-that, he was
merely depressing.

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