Re: That's it. I'm going to the police.

lessen ECHELON's ability to
spy in such a massive dragnet fashion.

There is an ugly implication to ECHELON being the reason Netscape and company
are being held hostage by the NSA.

"Only with a court authorized warrant..." --- Louis Freeh, FBI Director

Louis Freeh is lying.


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Key Recovery Isn't Even Feasible
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http://www.epic.org

Distinguished cryptographers and computer scientists have released a new
report, "The Risks of Key Recovery, Key Escrow, and Trusted Third-Party
Encryption."

The report follows an earlier recommendation of the OECD that the risks of
key escrow encryption be considered before key escrow infrastructures are
established. The report concludes "The deployment of a global key-recovery-
based encryption infrastructure to meet law enforcement's stated specifications
will result in substantial sacrifices in security and greatly increased costs
to the end-user."


http://www.crypto.com/key_study/report.shtml

The Risks of Key Recovery, Key Escrow,
and Trusted Third-Party Encryption

Hal Abelson[1]
Ross Anderson[2]
Steven M. Bellovin[3]
Josh Benaloh[4]
Matt Blaze[5]
Whitfield Diffie[6]
John Gilmore[7]
Peter G. Neumann[8]
Ronald L. Rivest[9]
Jeffrey I. Schiller[10]
Bruce Schneier[11]

Final Report -- 27 May 1997[12]

Executive Summary

A variety of ``key recovery,'' ``key escrow,'' and ``trusted third-party''



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