My response to a message by Dorothy Denning in 1995 - Key Escrow

From: General X (at11xbxb_at_asean-mail.com)
Date: 01/05/04


Date: 5 Jan 2004 02:20:54 -0800

Actually Dorothy has been opposing my positions on encryption and
cryptography. Basically, I want people to be able to develop as
difficult algorithms as possible and use these without any
restrictions of any kind. For example, if the U.S. government can not
break these codes, then another power may or should take over the
leadership and control of the world, because the U.S. government would
not deserve to have this leadership position.

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Hopefully John Young is not related to Pipeline Communications and
other miscalleneous architects who are then linked to one person whose
name is Jyri or Juri (either in Finnish or in Russian).

From: John Young <jya@pipeline.com>
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 1996 06:43:35 -0500
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: NYT on Crypto Issue
Sender: owner-cypherpunks@toad.com

   One defender of key-escrow policy is Dorothy Denning, a
   professor of computer science at Georgetown University and
   a consultant to the military industry. She argued in a
   letter to Senator Patrick J. Leahy Democrat of Vermont --
   one of the sponsors of the new legislation -- that such a
   system was vital to public safety and security.



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