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- From: tcmay@netcom.com (Timothy C. May)
- Subject: Re: RSA marketing weakness or lack of demand?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov11.175047.9868@netcom.com>
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- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 17:50:47 GMT
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- David Sternlight (strnlght@netcom.com) wrote:
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- : If the Democrats obtain a second term, absent new laws, unrestricted
- : use of public key systems without PKP's legal interference will
- : be possible at that time. Who knows, by then personal computers may
- : even be fast enough to permit full RSA use, rather than RSA key encryption
- : of DES/IDEA messages. In any case, the issue would need to be confronted
- : by both intelligence and law enforcement.
- :
- : I predict that unless a key registration law is "sneaked in" there's
- : going to be a bitter public battle over this issue during the current
- : Clinton administration. Hone your arguments and your
- : intervention/lobbying/testimony techniques now, whatever side of this
- : you're on.
-
- Crypto was a very hot topic at this year's Hackers Conferene. The
- Denning key registration trial balloon came up several times. Mike
- Godwin of the EFF told me he expects something similar to the Denning
- proposal to be used, even in a Clinton Administration.
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- He's talking to folks around D.C. and the consensus is that the
- various agencies are pressing for something along these lines.
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- --Tim May
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- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money,
- tcmay@netcom.com | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero
- 408-688-5409 | knowledge, reputations, information markets,
- W.A.S.T.E.: Aptos, CA | black markets, collapse of governments.
- Higher Power: 2^756839 | PGP Public Key: awaiting Macintosh version.
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