From: "William H. Geiger III" <whgiii@invweb.net>
Date: Sun, 5 Apr 1998 20:39:46 -0700 (PDT)
To: John Young <jya@pipeline.com>
Subject: Re: Leahy's Crypto Wake-up Call
In-Reply-To: <199804060308.XAA25459@camel7.mindspring.com>
Message-ID: <199804060339.XAA19432@users.invweb.net>
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In <199804060308.XAA25459@camel7.mindspring.com>, on 04/05/98 
   at 11:08 PM, John Young <jya@pipeline.com> said:

>  Third, legislation should establish both procedures and 
>standards for access by law enforcement to decryption keys 
>or decryption assistance for both encrypted communications 
>and stored electronic information and only permit such access  upon court
>order authorization, with appropriate notice and  other procedural
>safeguards;

And just *how* do they plan on doing this without either backdoors or
escrow??

>  Fourth, legislation should establish both procedures and 
>standards for access by foreign governments and foreign law  enforcement
>agencies to the plaintext of encrypted 
>communications and stored electronic information of United 
>States persons;

I think not.

They just don't get it.

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