On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 09:49:13AM -0700, Dennis J. Eberl wrote:
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>I did. Back doors are a good idea. We need strict laws to cover there use.
>fsck that, Jacob.
>
Over and above the civil rights issues, back doors are a technical idiocy.
Any encryption that comes pre-equipped with vulnerabilities will be cracked
by the "unauthorized" in short order, and will be as generally useful as ROT13.
Moreover, it's rather late to stuff the genie back in the bottle; when effective
crypto is outlawed, the outlaws will continue to use effective crypto.
Also, since you've apparently got "nothing to hide", would you mind posting
your credit card numbers, ATM PINs, account passwords, and teenage daughter's
phone number to the list?
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