From: Declan McCullagh <declan@pathfinder.com>
To: Carl Ellison <cme@cybercash.com>
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Reply To: <199701230027.QAA01813@toad.com>
UTC Datetime: 1997-01-23 03:16:36 UTC
Raw Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 19:16:36 -0800 (PST)
From: Declan McCullagh <declan@pathfinder.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 19:16:36 -0800 (PST)
To: Carl Ellison <cme@cybercash.com>
Subject: Re: David Kahn advocates GAK
In-Reply-To: <199701230027.QAA01813@toad.com>
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It is indeed a shame, and Carl's response was (of course) excellent.
The last chapter of the revised edition of the Codebreakers is reasonably
pro-government in the way it lays out the issue of key escrow, so perhaps
we shouldn't be surprised. (I'm told that David's sojourn at the NSA
museum was unexciting; they wouldn't tell him much.) :)
-Declan
On Wed, 22 Jan 1997, Carl Ellison wrote:
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> It might also be that David's year long sabatical at NSA's crypto museum
> which recently ended put him in touch with people who believe in GAK.
>
> I found it interesting that he noted the argument that each additional
> day of government access is a good thing. This is the kind of belief
> we know that NSA holds -- a.k.a. "not on my watch" -- but I haven't seen
> it publicly admitted before.
>
> - Carl
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