Re: [cryptography] Tahoe-LAFS developers' statement on backdoors

2010-10-06 Thread silky
On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 10:32 AM, Zooko O'Whielacronx zo...@zooko.com wrote: http://tahoe-lafs.org/pipermail/tahoe-dev/2010-October/005353.html http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/browser/trunk/docs/backdoors.txt Statement on Backdoors October 5, 2010 The New York Times has recently

Re: [cryptography] Tahoe-LAFS developers' statement on backdoors

2010-10-06 Thread Randall
On Oct 6, 2010, at 11:38 PM, silky wrote: On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 2:35 PM, Randall rv...@insightbb.com wrote: [.The USG says it wants to have back doors into all encryption programs. They could have put Phil Zimmerman in prison and bankrupted PKZIP, Inc. if they liked - but what leverage

Re: [cryptography] Tahoe-LAFS developers' statement on backdoors

2010-10-06 Thread Marsh Ray
On 10/06/2010 06:42 PM, silky wrote: The core Tahoe developers promise never to change Tahoe-LAFS to facilitate government access to data stored or transmitted by it. Even if it were desirable to facilitate such access—which it is not—we believe it would not be technically feasible to do so