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Date:      Mon, 12 May 1997 17:00:53 -0700 (MST)
From:      Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
To:        sef@Kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan)
Cc:        dgy@rtd.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: DES policy
Message-ID:  <199705130000.RAA08645@phaeton.artisoft.com>
In-Reply-To: <199705122251.PAA27081@kithrup.com> from "Sean Eric Fagan" at May 12, 97 03:51:44 pm

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> Working against them, the Forces of Evil include the President (that's Bill
> Clinton) who (probably on behalf of the NSA) is pushing to have all
> non-key-escrow forms of encryption made illegal.  This is BAD.

That's OK.  There is a mathematical flaw in Clipper which allows you
you use it to make message non-escrow decryptable.

Luckily, the proposed legislation makes no distinction between "key
escrow system" and "*functioning* key escrow system".  Hah.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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