Canada's justice minister preparing bill to limit encryption
Declan McCullagh
declan at well.com
Wed Sep 26 17:07:26 PDT 2001
At 04:53 PM 9/26/01 -0700, Steve Schear wrote:
>At 07:17 PM 9/26/2001 -0400, Declan McCullagh wrote:
>>At 04:06 PM 9/26/01 -0700, Steve Schear wrote:
>>>Wonder how ZKS will handle this?
>>
>>Ah, yes, Canada, land of the free. Didn't you know that Montreal is an
>>entirely hospitable place for libertarian anarcho-capitalists?
>>
>>Perhaps there will be an exemption in this (admittedly, entirely fuzzy)
>>proposal for companies that voluntarily escrow their keys with the RCMP.
>
>Perhaps I incompletely understand ZKS' technology. I thought they have
>structured their system to deny them data (ZK) which could be escrowed.
Ah, I was joking. But they'll have to find some way to comply (if the bill
becomes law, hardly a certainty).
-Declan
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