From owner-freebsd-security Mon Sep 17 10:42:44 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from pineapple.theshop.net (pineapple.theshop.net [208.128.7.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4AE3C37B406 for ; Mon, 17 Sep 2001 10:42:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bsdprophet.org (grape1.theshop.net [206.30.141.194]) by pineapple.theshop.net (8.11.3/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f8HHf9t13940; Mon, 17 Sep 2001 12:41:14 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from Scott@bsdprophet.org) Message-ID: <3BA635EA.36E75D01@bsdprophet.org> Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 12:42:02 -0500 From: Scott Corey Organization: Open Source Education Foundation X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Michael Richards Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: US Congress already discussing bans on strong crypto References: <3BA20FDB.000229.61269@frodo.searchcanada.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Michael Richards wrote: > > I think it would be just as effective if they were to pass a law > requiring all terrorist organisations to provide backdoor keys to > their encrypted communications. > > Since things like DES and RSA are so widely published there really > isn't a way to make these "go away". If you're planning on hijacking > aircraft and flying them into buildings, I don't think you will care > that much about a little law against sending PGP'd email. What makes you think there are no backdoors now? I always thought that it was odd that the NSA allowed MS and Netscape to export 128 bit encryption with their browsers last year. Scroll down to page 34 "Workfactor Reduction" http://www.fas.org/irp/program/process/docs/98-14-01-2en.pdf Scott To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message