Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!unix.cis.pitt.edu!dsinc!widener!iggy.GW.Vitalink.COM!pacbell.com!tandem!zorch!vsi1!hsv3!mvp From: mvp@hsv3.UUCP (Mike Van Pelt) Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk Subject: Congress proposes REQUIRING crypto back doors Message-ID: <8084@hsv3.UUCP> Date: 11 Apr 91 18:25:45 GMT Reply-To: mvp@hsv3.UUCP (Mike Van Pelt) Organization: Video 7 + G2 = Headland Technology Lines: 9 Readers of this group might want to check out RISKS DIGEST 11.43. Seems the ever lovin' Joe Biden wants to require all providers of cryptological hardware and software to have installed in the product some kind of "back door" so that (*ahem*) authorized personell can decrypt the encoded data. -- Mike Van Pelt "Nobody's life, liberty, or property Headland Technology/Video 7 are safe while Congress is in session." ...ames!vsi1!v7fs1!mvp -- Will Rogers