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Freeh testimony mentioning ADK (Re: Signature Subpacket 10?)

Adam Back <adam@cypherspace.org> Thu, 21 July 2005 11:20 UTC

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Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 07:08:42 -0400
From: Adam Back <adam@cypherspace.org>
To: Jon Callas <jon@callas.org>
Cc: OpenPGP <ietf-openpgp@imc.org>, Adam Back <adam@cypherspace.org>, Ian Grigg <iang@systemics.com>
Subject: Freeh testimony mentioning ADK (Re: Signature Subpacket 10?)
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On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 05:21:55PM -0700, Jon Callas wrote:
> >The notion was that it should go
> >in the standard, but that was politically charged
> >at the time - indeed Loius Freeh stood up in
> >front of Congress and used this very feature as
> >proof that it was possible to force all crypto
> >programs to escrow messages for the FBI...
> >
> 
> No. That's completely false. I have no idea where you heard that, but 
> that's not at all true.
>
> This is so false that the opposite is true. The FBI hated it because it 
> was a completely voluntary system with easy workarounds. The FBI hated 
> it, which is one of the amusing ironies about the thing.

Ian's right, you're wrong, it is true.  

I definitely recall this event in testimony from Freeh being in the
news, using PGP's ADK/ARR/???  (several renames I forget all the
names) feature as an example of how key recovery was possible.

Probably you can dig it up with google and the right search terms.

Adam

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