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Debate Over Encryption Software Access and Law Enforcement Keys

Calendar Sep 24, 2001 • User Avatar Anthony Pell
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In a terror-induced climate of heightened electronic vigilance, debate is brewing over whether makers of encryption software should be obliged to provide law enforcement with the keys to open scrambled messages. Phil Zimmermann and fellow encryption supporters thought they had won . . . In a terror-induced climate of heightened electronic vigilance, debate is brewing over whether makers of encryption software should be obliged to provide law enforcement with the keys to open scrambled messages. Phil Zimmermann and fellow encryption supporters thought they had won the battle two years ago when the U.S. government decided to permit the export of full-strength encryption software without requiring programmers to hand over spare keys...

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