Keys to Secret Drawers: The Clipper Chip and Key Escrow Encryption
The use of non-escrowed encryption would create a society that “protects pedophiles and criminals.”
Topic: Communication
Was That Really the Gov Online?
Let me set your mind to rest about security on the Internet: There IS NO SECURITY ON THE INTERNET, and I don’t think there can be.
Information Highways
An Internet e-mail address will likely be as mandatory in the future as the fax is today.
The Clipper Chip
One cannot predict the future with certainty, but it is probable that Skipjack will eventually be cracked … The second condition for the success of the Clipper chip, that it be accepted by the online community, will never be fulfilled.
The Internet – Where is it all going?
We plainly need to provide better tools for securing Internet access. This would allow companies and individual subscribers to protect their internal resources while allowing them to reach out and be visible on the global Internet.
The Internet – Where’s It All Going?
Firewalls are important, as there’s always going to be marauders out there on the Net.
The Economy of Ideas
Cryptography will enable protection technologies that will develop rapidly in the obsessive competition that has always existed between lock-makers and lock-breakers. But cryptography will not be used simply for making locks. It is also at the heart of both digital signatures and the aforementioned digital cash, both of which I believe will be central to the future protection of intellectual property.
The Economy of Ideas
Early reliance on copy protection led to the subliminal notion that cracking into a software package somehow “earned” one the right to use it. Limited not by conscience but by technical skill, many soon felt free to do whatever they could get away with. This will continue to be a potential liability of the encryption of digitized commerce.
The Rise and Swift Fall of Cyber Literacy
In the next decade, electronic mail is dead.
Highways of the Mind or Toll Roads Between Information Castles?
One doesn’t need the vast capacity of NREN to exchange simple electronic mail. There are many alternative, if slower, networks available. Using super-sophisticated NREN for such mundane tasks might be like trying to get a drink out of a fire hose. And it’s problematic whether local schools and libraries would be able to pay for the equipment needed to exchange items much more complex than simple electronic mail. There’s the potential here for the creation of information haves and information have-nots.