From: Bill Campbell <wcampbel@peganet.com>
Date: Tue, 4 Feb 1997 23:41:20 -0800 (PST)
To: Steve Schear <azur@netcom.com>
Subject: Re: GAK/KR spin
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Steve Schear said:

>Several months back there were discussions on the list regarding renaming
>the government's key escrow/recovery proposals (KRAP comes to mind).  I
>think we need something that's catchy and simple (perhaps already familiar)
>to understand for the semi-litterate citizen units.  I propose we encourage
>use of the terms "crippleware" or "crypto crippleware" when refering to the
>products limited to their weak crypto and/or key escrow/recovery.

Another point on all this that was made by Matt Blaze at the RSA
conference (and that I have been making to all my friends) is that Crypto
is basically a "solved" problem. The government's efforts to impose
GAK is in effect transposing a "solved" problem into an "unsolved"
problem - due to the inherent problems with any conceivable
GAK "solution". I thought this was a very good case against GAK.

=Bill=