On Fri, 7 Jul 2000, Bill Stewart wrote:
> The current UK effort is why we also need "Perfect Forward Secrecy
> In Everything"; it's hard to force someone to turn over their
> decryption keys when their equipment doesn't store them past a
> session, and it's easier to argue that you shouldn't be required to
> turn over a signature key that can only be used for forgery than a
> decryption key which could reveal past session keys.
IANAL but wouldn't the UK's proposed legislation make software that
won't provide access to all keys implicitly illegal?
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