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Date: 1998-11-13

Key Recovery: PGP ruiniert Reputation


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Ohne darüber grossen Wind zu machen ist Network
Associates International (NAI) der sogenannten "Key
Recovery Alliance" beigetreten, die man im vergangenen
Dezember verlassen hatte, um den guten Ruf des NAI-
Markenzeichens "Pretty Good Privacy" als sicheres
Programm zu schützen.
Alle "key recovery" Programme enthalten die von
Geheimdiensten und Militärs geforderte Hintertür.

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12:27 p.m. 12.Nov.98.PST Computer-security giant Network
Associates Inc. has quietly rejoined a global coalition
promoting a controversial technology that could give the US
government access to encrypted data.

Network Associates, which owns cryptography software firm
PGP and firewall vendor Trusted Information Systems,
dropped out of the Key Recovery Alliance last December to
protect the PGP brand, which some civil-liberties advocates
say was tainted by its association with the alliance.
....
"We would assume that the acquisition of Trusted Information
Systems would be a contributing factor with the change of
that policy," said David Sobel of the Electronic Privacy
Information Center.

"TIS is widely regarded as the originator of the whole concept
of key escrow," Sobel said. Several executives are former
employees of the National Security Agency, which is
believed to be a prime advocate of key recovery in
Washington.
....
Civil liberties advocates dislike key recovery because they
feel it is the start of a slippery slope toward so-called
mandatory key recovery, which would give the government
access to private data.

While the Key Recovery Alliance says it is not a political
action committee or lobbying group, the group is often held
up by politicians as an example of industry support for the
administration's policy.
....
An attorney with the Center for Democracy and Technology
said that Network Associates opposes mandatory key
recovery, but that the company may be hedging its bets
against future shifts in Administration policy.
...
ynn McNulty, director of government affairs for RSA Data
Security, said the company is likely not expecting negative
political fallout, one year after the PGP acquisition.
...

full story
http://www.wired.com/news/news/technology/story/16219.htm
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relayed by
Jay D. Dyson" <jdyson@techreports.jpl.nasa.gov
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