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1997-10-15 - Re: proposal: commercial data recovery

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From: “Richard Johnson” <rdump@river.com>
To: Will Price <ietf-open-pgp@imc.org
Message Hash: 14f237df597a364ffcad9759bb9ed3a35fe3c91c8cf9476ae228d9e8b7be8e20
Message ID: <v03110702b06ab5c3f22a@dolores.scd.ucar.edu>
Reply To: <199710140937.KAA01187@server.test.net>
UTC Datetime: 1997-10-15 22:44:29 UTC
Raw Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 06:44:29 +0800

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From: "Richard Johnson" <rdump@river.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 06:44:29 +0800
To: Will Price <ietf-open-pgp@imc.org
Subject: Re: proposal: commercial data recovery
In-Reply-To: <199710140937.KAA01187@server.test.net>
Message-ID: <v03110702b06ab5c3f22a@dolores.scd.ucar.edu>
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At 02:34 -0700 on 10/15/97, Will Price wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> Hash: SHA1
>
> Adam:
> ...
> The design you have been espousing for the last week or so in your many
> messages takes the power out of the hands of the sender and encourages
> automated violations of the sender's privacy by the recipient (perhaps even
> unbeknownst to the recipient). ...


This is simply a reflection of reality.  The sender has little real control
over what the recipient actually does with any message.  If the recipient
shares the information content, the sender is basically limited to civil or
criminal sanctions after that sharing becomes evident.

Designing a standard for encrypted communications that attempts to fight
that fact will likely be wasted effort.


Richard

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