re once tapped your code is no good any more tcmay netcom com timothy c may writes brad templeton brad clarinet com wrote it occurs to me that if they get a wiretap order on you and the escrow houses release your code to the cops your code is now no longer secure it s in the hands of cops and while i am sure most of the time they are good their security will not be as good as the escrow houses what this effectively means is that if they perform a wiretap on you at the end of the wiretap they should be obligated to inform you that a tap was performed and replace for free the clipper chip in your cellular phone so that it is once again a code known only to the escrow houses getting the court order to reveal the key also makes decipherable all past conversations which may be on tape or disk or whatver as i understand the proposal i could be wrong but i ve seen no mention of session keys being the escrowed entities as the eff noted this raises further issues about the fruits of one bust leading to incrimination in other areas but is it any worse than the current unsecure system it becomes much worse of course if the government then uses this clinton clipper to argue for restrictions on unapproved encryption this is the main concern of most of us i think the camel s nose in the tent etc and it may also become much worse if the ostensible security is increased thus allowing greater access to central office records by the government the conversations being encrypted who will object to letting the government have access to them perhaps even automatically archiving large fractions this was one of the main objections to the s proposal that it would force telecom suppliers to provide easy access for the government one the government has had access to months or years of your encrypted conversations now all it takes is one misstep one violation that gets them the paperwork needed to decrypt all of them do we want anyone to have this kind of power tim may whose sig block may get him busted in the new regime a remark i heard the other day is beginning to take on increasingly frightening significance the comment was made that in other parts of the world the democrats note the big d would be known as socialists a note the small d democrat who wonders what thomas jefferson on this the th anniversary of his birth would have thought of the state of affairs between the government and the governed any views expressed are those of myself and not my employer steven c johnson wb iru vk gds trw johnson trwacs fp trw com fp federal systems park drive phone fairfax virginia u s a fax any views expressed are those of myself and not my employer steven c johnson wb iru vk gds trw johnson trwacs fp trw com fp
