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- From: books@fsunuc.physics.fsu.edu (Roger Books)
- Subject: Re: Registered Keys - why the need?
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- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 92 14:42:47 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov2.084229.1@zodiac.rutgers.edu> leichter@zodiac.rutgers.
- edu writes:
- >Imagine that Richard Nixon, in making his tapes, had access to a DAT
- >recorder with an encryption chip. Congress subpeonas the tapes; he
- >delivers tapes that sound like white noise. What are the keys, Mr. Nixon?
- >No, I won't tell you that, Fifth Amendment.
- >
- >Or imagine that Ollie North's famous deleted mail messages had been
- >encrypted. Or, to take a recent example, that Caspar Weinberger had used a
- >palmtop to keep his personal diary, and all entries in it were encrypted.
-
- >All these examples are from the political domain, because it's those cases
- >that get wide publicity, so all of you know about them. But there is
- >nothing unique about the political domain. How far would investigation of
- >the S&L's gone if they had encrypted their records, and had a right to
- >refuse to reveal the keys?
-
- The S&L thing has already been talked to death but as for the others,
- Am I the only one to notice that the government tends to exempt itself from
- these type laws anyway? Do you think any proposed law is going to stop
- the Commander-in-Chief and the military (Ollie North) from encrypting
- without fear of leaks?
-
- Roger
- books@fsunuc.physics.fsu.edu
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