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From: gordon@sneaky.lonestar.org (Gordon Burditt)
Newsgroups: sci.crypt,misc.legal,comp.org.eff.talk
Subject: Re: Senate Bill 266 would require trapdoors in encryption gear
Message-ID: <53823@sneaky.lonestar.org>
Date: 15 Apr 91 01:01:43 GMT
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>It is the sense of Congress that providers of electronic communications
>services and manufacturers of electronic communications service equipment shall
>ensure that communications systems permit the government to obtain the plain
>text contents of voice, data, and other communications when appropriately
>authorized by law.

I interpret this to mean, in the case of Privacy-Enhanced Mail and 
crypto hardware that has to have keys supplied by the manufacturer:

"Key distribution centers shall keep logs of who is issued what keys,
and make such logs and duplicate key hardware available to law enforcement 
personnel and any Drug Dealers(tm) with enough cash to bribe officers 
of the key distribution center".

It doesn't seem to require a backdoor.

						Gordon L. Burditt
						sneaky.lonestar.org!gordon