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- From: huntting@advtech.uswest.com (Brad Huntting)
- Subject: Re: Key registration proposal in CACM
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- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 00:00:08 GMT
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- Brad Knowles, Defense Information Systems Agency <BLKNOWLE@JDSSC.DCA.MIL> writes in Communications of the ACM:
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- >Have a central Key Distribution Facility (KDF) that is run under the auspices
- >of the IEEE, ANSI, FBI, NIST, another government agency, or some neutral third
- >party -- one that gives a reasonable guarantee (one which I will not attempt to
- >define here) that the keys will be kept safely from prying eyes, even those
- >that belong to the government. Specify that the RSA encryption algorithm (or
- >some other public-key encryption algorithm) will be used to safely encrypt
- >messages, and that all keys for this implementation will be issued by this KDF.
- >Furthermore, if law enforcement agencies can present a legitimate wiretap order
- >to this KDF, then issue them the private key(s) for the person(s) or
- >organizations that is/are going to be wiretapped.
-
- This person is either naive, daft, blind or all three. The government
- is not our freind. It doesn't protect the inocent and it doesn't
- punish the well to do. Trusting the government with your privacy is
- alot like trusting a kleptomaniac to house sit for you.
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- brad
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