[e-privacy] Fwd: [the return of key escrow?]

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> Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 10:52:45 -0500
> From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb at cs.columbia.edu>
> Subject: the return of key escrow?
> To: cryptography at metzdowd.com
> 
> According to the BBC, the British government is talking to Microsoft 
> about putting in a back door for the file encryption mechanisms.
> 
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4713018.stm
> 
> 
> 
> 		--Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
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