re clipper considered harmful in article apr ulysses att com smb research att com steven bellovin writes that is the cops send the lef to the f holder the f holder strips off f and sends u k n to the escrow agents they send either u or k to the cops don says u i say k the cops can t use u in the future because they can t strip off f the f holder never sees u in don s model the escrow agents can t read the traffic because they don t have k in my model they have k but not the message itself and i trust that more because i think the cops and the fbi the f holder are more likely to collaborate on breaking the rules the net result is that by involving the f holder and the escrow agents on every tap we can avoid extending permission to tap i ve been reading this board passively for a while now and find the subject absolutely fascinating especially from the point of view of a civil rights nut like myself my problem is that i m new to the field and paragraphs like the above keep popping up i m sure what mr bellovin is writing about is both fascinating and important but i have no idea what it means anyway i m keen to learn and will read anything i can get my hands on that explains this stuff in lay terms i have a decent cs background but not a huge amount of hyper advanced math can anyone point me to a faq or a decent source of information about the guts of current cryptography and maybe a little history as well i read the piece in this month s wired can anyone tell me how much i should trust the references they suggest thanks in advance steve steve kramarsky university of chicago law school steve faerie chi il us or smk quads uchicago edu all i did was kiss a girl jake the night before his hanging
