Re: [iwar] - Sword cuts both ways
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Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 13:27:58 -0500
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Subject: Re: [iwar] - Sword cuts both ways
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At 10:33 AM 2/20/01 -0800, Tony Bartoletti wrote:
>I don't want to tell some father that his child was abducted or killed
>because an email between relatives detailing the child's itinerary was
>not allowed to be strongly encrypted.
One could use this as an argument in favor of government-managed key escrow
of strong encryption, of course... you shouldn't have anything to fear from
the FBI alone having the means to break your encryption, and goodness
knows, what if both parties to the e-mail were run over by trucks and a
third relative needed to get access to the note to successfully pick up the
child at the airport? What then, huh? :-)
I think it's a weak argument in support of free strong cryptography (there
are many better), as the folks who are going to be breaking weak crypto are
more likely to be governments, and criminal enterprises seeking financial
or political gain... Joe Pedophile won't be hacking code, though perhaps if
I were a criminal wanting to want to kidnap, say, Kathy Lee Gifford's kid
for ransom, it might be worth the trouble. So perhaps better to say that I
don't want to tell the shareholders of Boeing that its stock was driven
through the floor because an e-mail outlining its proposed bid for a
multi-billion dollar contract with the government of the PRC and
intercepted by the French was weakly encrypted.
Ross
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