Dutch Government wants to regulate strong cryptography

[Johan Wevers]

Remco wrote:

>>Ach, wel, you know (should know) how this will go here. A lot shouting from
>>politicians who want to get some airtime, and then it's over. And even if it
>>became law, noone would enforce it.

> Could or would, that's the question......

I think both.

>>>and how would they be able to build in a backdoor

>>There are several methods for that. The most straightforward one would be
>>to use an ADK.
> Eeeeehhhh, Ai Don't Know?  A Dumb Kwestion? 

Aditional Decryption Key, something the corporate versions of pgp have. You
then encrypt the session key to 2 public keys, the recipients and the ADK.
The ADK is then escrowed.

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