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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: DES policy
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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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