From: "William H. Geiger III" <whgiii@amaranth.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 00:45:34 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: IBM sues critics?
Message-ID: <199706161623.LAA20012@mailhub.amaranth.com>
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In <1.5.4.32.19970614201321.009a8b38@pop.pipeline.com>, on 06/14/97 
   at 04:13 PM, John Young <jya@pipeline.com> said:

>Secret Squirrel wrote:
>>According to a usually reliable contact in a position to know, IBM Friday
>>filed a liable suit against the 11 authors of the study
>>titled "The risks of key recovery, key escrow and trusted third-party
>>encryption" plus their employers and the Centere for Democracy and
>>Technology, which sponsored the report.  According to my contact, IBM
>>feels that the report directly targets their own key recovery system,
>>and falsely implies that it isn't reliable.  They are asking for
>>unspecified damages.


>If this report is true it's worth taking a look at IBM's policy paper
>"The need for a global cryptographic policy framework" to  understand why
>the key study report is such a threat to
>Blue's global market strategy:

>   http://www.ibm.com/security/html/pp_global.html

>IBM's economic incentive to attack the report is substantial, not least
>because it hopes to garner the lion's share of global GAK --
>not that that's news.


Has there been any conformation on this?

I would like to get in touch with some of my contacts at IBM but would
like to have some info on this first.

Thanks,

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