Vol. XIV June 1996 No.06

Newsletter of the Stanford I Palo Alto Users Group for PC

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Words from the Prez on installing it in the near future. On the question regarding communication and Bob Mitchell information, responses were heavily weighted in the direction of "average" or "little The Questionnaire - A Preliminary Look knowledge" regarding the Internet and information systems such as AOL or Three weeks of vacation is now history and I CompuServe. This was surprising since of the can now devote some time to the business of 32 returns, 31 individuals indicated their attempting to fulfill some of the systems included a modem. This does not responsibilities that I agreed to take on with mean that our group is not interested in the our group. My thanks to Brian Christopher subject, rather you want information about the who agreed to retain the leadership on my Internet so you can join the rest of the return. It wasn't easy considering a last minute computer world. This was demonstrated by 20 cancellation of a guest for the May meeting. responses of "very interested" and 12 "somewhat interested" to an area of the In an effort to determine what you the Internet explored at each meeting. members of SPAUG want, a questionnaire was offered that allowed us to determine what your Information software seemed to be much more i~terests were and allowed you to express your popular than game software. There were 21 views. So far, out of approximately 75 paid up responses indicating "not interested" in game members we have received 32 returns. There software with 6 "not interested" in educational were very interesting and in some cases very software. surprising results. LAN systems were of at least some interest to general knowledge of personal computing ?n 12 individuals with 20 "not interested". m general, PC Hardware, DOS and Windows, almost everybody regarded themselves average Reasons for not attending meetings included or above average. "Family problems", "conflicts with other activities", "meetings run too late", "late There were 5 responses indicating being "very notice" and "moves of meeting location". knowl~dgeable" 2 reflecting "little knowledge". Compelling reasons for attending future On Windows 3.x, we discovered the club has meetings included the addition (or repeat) of at least 2 DOS diehards. On Windows '95, 22 software demonstrations that included more indicated "little knowledge" with 10 (Continued on page 2) individuals who already have it and 8 planning (Continued from page 1) MS Office '95 and Netscape. useful applications such as utilities that resolve software conflict problems, personal data Based on this and questionnaires yet to be organization, and uninstallers with hardware returned we will be guided accordingly. At the demonstration of color scanners color printers moment, the input from 32 members will carry and CD Rom drives. There was also a heavy weight in shaping the future of suggestion that we should include some of the SPAUG. You still have time to exercise your basics on hardware (e.g.how does it work?). A "vote". number of members felt that the notices of upcoming meetings should do more in Considering national averages for responses to "selling" them on attending. surveys, this was outstanding. For all of those members who took the time to fill in the Most likable parts of meetings included blanks and offer your comments, a very sincere Random Access (Q&A), and presentations "Thank you". If there are substantial (demos) on new software and hardware. There refinements to this report we will include them were also votes for the drawings for free in the next PrintScreen. We will also provide software. On changes or eliminations, we you with some thoughts on the plans for the should locate the meetings in a place "like future based on the results of this survey. Varian" where the membership could see on a Stay tuned! projected image what was being demonstrated (good news coming on that). We should avoid MEmbErship lntErnEt AddrESSEs "glitzy" super salespersons, improve disk-of­ the-month (demos on a projected screen Beverly Altman [email protected] would do this), and a "blow off" of questions Audrey Borland [email protected] during random access. There was also a Frank Campbell rfvw9 [email protected] suggestion that there should be an attempt on Brian Christopher brianc@mediaci ty. com Jim Dinkey [email protected] better name recognition among the Karen Fung [email protected] membership. We should add: the mid meeting Dick Harding [email protected] break, location where you can "see" and "hear" Nancy Helmy [email protected] the presentations, more shareware Stein Hoffmoen [email protected] information, non-product presentations on Jess Kanarek [email protected] computer subjects, identify the officers, more Floyd Kessler [email protected] members including younger people in college Don Kleyensteuber [email protected] or recent college graduates. Mildred Kohn [email protected] Aldora Lee [email protected] Suggestions for hardware demos ran the gamut Bill McElhinney [email protected] John McFall [email protected] with particular emphasis on color scanners, Zip Bob Mitchell TVBob [email protected] drives and other removable disk type drives Robert Mitchell [email protected] such as Syquest, CD ROM drives, color Larry Mehl [email protected] printers, the fastest computers (133-166 Clark Moore [email protected] MHz), visioner paper port and a PC to TV Jim Powell [email protected] conversion unit, optical hard drives, sound Norm Rossen [email protected] cards, memory extenders, video boards, Ron Seltzer [email protected] laptops, modems and (horrors) a Power Mac. John Sessom [email protected] Lamont Shadowens [email protected] Russ Smith [email protected] Suggestions for software demos also covered Kendric Smith [email protected] the world. They included utilities (high Barry Smith [email protected] response) with individual requests for Ben Swan [email protected] Windows '95, foreign language, uninstallers, Walt Varner [email protected] Pagemaker, Printshop, Stackers, Family Tree Bill Weber [email protected] Maker, OS-2 applications, CAD, accounting Larry Weinberg [email protected] for small business, Quicken CD ROM Deluxe, Seth Wu [email protected]

2 Disk of The Month Daily Exercise [DOM9606] For The Nonathletic

Robert Mitchell Anonymous I contributed by Kendric Smith

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WSCI22CE.ZIP - Win 3.1 943K Opening a can of worms 50 McAfee Anti Virus Scan tool for Windows 3.1, Putting your foot in your mouth. 300 a must have utility for all Windows users. Starting the ball rolling. 90 Protect you system from terrible viruses that Going over the edge 25 can damage vital files and hard drive boot Picking up the pieces after 350 sectors.

3 What is Shockwave? moved immediately to the World Wide W eh. The Macromedia shocked content that users of Macromedia authoring Macromedia's Internet Thrust tools bring to the Web Shockwave is a key component of completely change the look Macromedia's solution for moving creative and feel of Web pages professionals who develop digital media to the compared to static HTML. World Wide Web. It enables them to use their Web pages now include existing authoring tools, skills, and content interactive multimedia, immediately. vector graphics, sound, interactive information, and Shockwave consists of: more as Macromedia's tools Shockwave plug-ins for Macromedia's develop. Authorware, Director, and FreeHand authoring tools for Netscape Navigator 2.0 Shockwave is Everywhere and other popular Web browsers. Afterburner in Macromedia's Future utilities or Xtras that compress and optimize Shockwave solutions are now available for content for delivery on the Web. Macromedia's three most widely used authoring tools (Director, Authorware, and Since December 5, 1995, when the first FreeHand), and will be available for all of Shockwave for Director plug-ins were Macromedia's authoring products before long. published on Macromedia's site on the Web, Likewise, Shockwave will be ubiquitous in that over a million people have downloaded and it will be available for common computer used Shockwave to view thousands of platforms, and for the most widely used Web "shocked" Web sites. "Shocked" contents fit browser architectures. Shockwave plug-ins for into the dynamic Web sites created by the Director, FreeHand, and Authorware are now Backstage tools that Macromedia recently available as Netscape Live Objects compatible acquired from iBand. This combination with Netscape Navigator 2.0. Shockwave plug­ anchors Macromedia's Internet strategy on ins packaged as Active Objects for use with two strong pillars: Microsoft Internet Explorer will be available in the near future. To encourage development Shockwave-enabled authoring tools for the and use of "Shocked" content on the Web, creative professional. Construction and Macromedia makes the Shockwave player plug­ management tools for Web site designers and ins and Afterburner authoring software freely managers. These two sets of products are available to download at tightly integrated and work together to h ttp://www.macromedia.com/. provide all the functionality necessary to Development and release of Shockwave produce Web sites that are: software will occur rapidly and continuously, both in conjunction with major releases of dynamic easily and rapidly changed and Macromedia authoring tools, and in parallel, so customized based on context and events that our developers and authors can keep content rich including animation, graphics, current with the rapid evolution of the Web. sound, multimedia, and full interaction. A Short History of Shockwave Moving Digital Media to the Internet Macromedia introduced Shockwave on Macromedia's authoring tools are the de facto December 5, 1995, when it unveiled standards for the creation and distribution of Shockwave for Director 4. Overnight, it digital media by creative professionals. revolutionized the Internet by bringing Shockwave provides extensions to those tools interactive multimedia to the World Wide so that the expertise and existing body of work Web. On April 15, 1996, Macromedia owned by those creative professionals can be introduces new Shockwave software with

4 expanded abilities to display additional forms sound, pies movies, and other data, of interactive multimedia, learning, and digital downloaded on demand, and developer­ arts to the World Wide Web. The concept is specified segmentation of content to tailor it simple. With Shockwave software, anyone to the specific delivery network. Because using the Netscape Navigator 2.0 browser can Shockwave software operates on standard view interactive multimedia on the Web Macromedia files, the features of Macromedia's including animation, sound, and high­ products for creating multimedia and resolution scalable and zoomable digital art. interactive graphics applications are Surfing the Web or in-house Intranets will immediately accessible to the huge audience of now become dynamic, informative, over half a million creative professionals who entertaining, and fun. use Macromedia authoring tools today.

Customers who use one of Macromedia's What You Can Deliver with Shockwave authoring tools - Director, FreeHand, and Software? Authorware 3.5 for Windows or Macintosh - Shockwave software is optimized for online can create a "shocked" piece for the Internet or multimedia and interactive graphics. in-house Intranet. Users simply create the Developers have produced: piece, compress it using Macromedia's compression software (called the Afterburner) Online advertising to optimize the piece for Web delivery, and (Director) upload it to their Web page. That's it! You've Games (Director and got interactive media on the Web. Authorware) Presentations for Shockwave Nuts and Bolts communicating marketing Shockwave software is made up of two distinct and product messages parts: the Shockwave plug-ins and the (Director and Authorware) Afterburner applications. The Shockwave plug­ Computer-based training ins are a set of viewers for Macromedia and educational courseware including quizzes datatypes that are packaged as plug-ins to the and tests (Authorware) two major Web browser architectures, and Interactive reference works and publications which play back Macromedia titles on the (Authorware) network. The Afterburner application is a Kiosks for both communication and user Macromedia Xtra or separate utility program input (Director and Authorware) that compresses and optimizes standard Surveys and questionnaires (Authorware) Macromedia files for use on the Web. Separate Maps and site plans (FreeHand) plug-ins and Afterburners are currently Online technical illustrations and product available for Director, FreeHand, and catalogs (FreeHand) Authorware, and for different platforms of Presentation of illustrations, logos, artwork, Netscape Navigator 2.0, including 16-bit and and other graphic images (FreeHand) 32-bit on Microsoft Windows, and 68K and "Highlight" animations like "flying logos" that PowerPC on the Apple Macintosh. add interest to Web pages (Director) Macromedia's evolving Shockwave offering also includes: How to Get Shockwave Shockwave is available free of charge on Macromedia Open Architecture (MOA) Macromedia's Web site at extensions to our authoring tools which enable http://www.macromedia.com/. The developers to use their products and expertise Shockwave plug-ins can be downloaded in a immediately to generate digital media content single package ("Easy Installation") or the user for the Web. Technology for "streaming" or can choose which Shockwave product version progressively downloading multimedia content and platform to download. Each of the over networks. The first example of this is in Afterburner compression programs is also Authorware 3.5, which provides streaming of available for downloading.

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9 Encryption civil libertarians call the eavesdropping a And Privacy On The Net violation of a citizen's rights?

Welcome to WEB WHIRL Stewart, in another 20 years, just how much with The Digital Diva privacy will any individual American have? Your Host: Michelle Slatalla Brought to you by Discovery Channel Online Stewart Baker April 26, 1996 http://www.us.net/-steptoe/baker.htm

Sparky: Good Afternoon, and welcome to Stewart Baker: The irony is that we will have Web Whirl with the Digital Diva! very little if unbreakable encryption spreads everywhere. The spread of encryption will give Web Whirl is designed as a guided tour: Our privacy against certain kinds of intrusions, but Fearless Leader, the Digital Diva, and me, her it will come at a cost to public safety that could faithful sidekick Sparky, prowl the Web and be significant. sniff out interesting sites for your entertainment and edification. We'll check out To my mind, the real threat to our privacy about a dozen sites in the next hour, and keep doesn't come from eavesdropping. It comes Diva's flying saucer moving at warp speed. from the free distribution of information we want to share with many people -- but not Our guest today is Stewart Baker, former with everyone everywhere. For example, General Counsel for the National Security there's nothing more chilling than running Agency, and presently an attorney in your own name through Alta Vista, and seeing private practice in Washington, DC. We'll be everything you've ever said published. discussing encryption and individual privacy on the Internet today.If some of these sites Diva: I found a photo of myself I didn't know interest you, bookmark 'em and goback to existed. them after the Whirl is over. That way, you won'tmiss any scintillating repartee from our Stewart Baker: Published Papers Diva, you won"t miss any new sites we push http://www.us.net/-steptoe/pubtoc.htm your way, and (most importantly) we won't melt anybody's server. Diva: I can imagine that you found a trove of information about yourself. You've been very Now, without further ado ... LET THE WEB vocal on this topic for some time. At a recent WHIRL BEGIN! debate last year, you and John Perry Barlow had a discussion about the role of government Diva: I want to thank Stewart Baker for joining in regulating online discourse. You said then us today as we examine one of the most that people who believe the Net is going to precious and fast-disappearing rights we have: create an anarchist utopia outside the authority the right to privacy. In an increasingly of government are uninformed. In what way? digitized world, where bits of personal information and confidential conversations Debate flow across insecure phone lines, we need to http://swarm.cs.wustl.edu/-mccap/debate/ use a tool to protect privacy. debate.html

Everyone agrees that encryption -- encoding Stewart Baker: The German prosecutor was information until it reaches its rightful able to keep CompuServe from giving access to destination -- will assure some measure of dozens of newsgroups. It may turn out that privacy. But how to encrypt? Who has the cyberspace is being regulated by everyone. right to use strong encryption? Should the government be able to preserve its right to Diva: How do we avoid having that happen? conduct court-approved wiretaps, even though Or can we?

10 Stewart Baker: I think we can, but it's going to tries to encourage use of key escrow in which take international pressure on governments the user has more choice about who controls that try to regulate too much. That means the his keys. That has more appeal, because as United States is going to have to take the lead more companies use encryption they in trying to prevent excessive regulation of the frequently discover that employees who die or Internet. leave on bad terms don't decrypt the files they leave behind. Very few companies want to give Diva: Jn the areas of encryption specifically? the only set of keys to their employees. Most Or are you speaking more generally about laws want to keep a copy somewhere. that govern online discourse, like the Communications Decency Act? Diva: So instead of a single repository that holds copies of keys to decrypt our private Stewart Baker: The latter. The regulations that transmissions, we're moving more to a model will not work on the Net are regulations of where there are different, private escrow individuals, like individual use of encryption. facilities? If this is true, will it dilute the The regulations that are likely to be excessive government's ability to gain access to those are those pertaining to businesses operating keys in the event of a court-approved wiretap online, or providing Internet infrastructure. situation?

Diva: Where did the United States government Stewart Baker: Yes. There are two problems go wrong in pushing the proposal to make the with the private escrow system, from the computer chip called Clipper the national government's point of view: First, very few encryption standard? companies have an interest in preserving the keys to phone conversations. So wiretapping NSA Home Page will become more difficult .... http://www.nsa.gov:8080/ Diva: Preserving those keys would mean Stewart Baker: The worst crime you can archiving a huge amount of data, wouldn't it? commit in Washington is to have a new idea. And Clipper was certainly a new idea. The chip Stewart Baker: Not necessarily. There are is actually not quite as dead as many believe: companies that monitor the phone calls of There will be hundreds of thousands deployed employees for good reasons (and sometimes in government operations over the next few for bad ones), and if the employees have years. encrypted lines, the companies might want to keep keys just long enough to listen in and Diva: Deployed because they are imbedded in then destroy them. After all, if you keep tapes equipment the government purchased? of the conversations, you don't need keys once the conversations are over. Stewart Baker: Yes. They will be in PC Cards used for secure e-mail, and some other RSA Security Inc. functions. http://www.rsa.com/

NSA Security Guidelines Diva: We're looking at the RSA home page. http://www.tscm.com/NSAsecmanual t .html The RSA created a strong public key cryptography system, which was a Diva: But Clipper as a national standard seems breakthrough: You could split your key, and to be an idea that's passe. make it harder for an enemy to crack your code. Would any of the initiatives that we're Stewart Baker: Yes. discussing today -- public or private Diva: Where are we headed now instead? -- have been possible without RSA?

Stewart Baker: The latest government initiative Stewart Baker: Public key encryption changed

11 the world forever. Before that, keys were investigations, but I do know the French automatically escrowed with the person who government was inclined to refuse licenses to administered the system. What RSA made US products containing 40-bit encryption. possible was a completely decentralized encryption system. Diva: Products containing encryption devices are sometimes classified as weapons, correct? Diva: No Big Brother? Stewart Baker: They are on the munitions list Stewart Baker: That's right. administered by the State Department. I'm not sure that an application was ever filed for them, RSA Frequently Asked Questions but they were designated t0 require a license http://www.rsa.com/rsalabs/faq/ for export, and probably did. faq_gnrl.html#gnrl Sparky: Stewart, is it true that T-shirts Diva: But no encryption system is inviolable. imprinted with the source for encryption Didn't some hackers recently crack RSA using algorithms and available via the Net were the combined strength of computers hooked themselves classified as munitions? up to the Net? Diva: Some guy had an algorithm tattooed on Stewart Baker: They broke what would now be his body in Wired magazine. described as a very short RSA key. We will always see advances in the ability of computers Stewart Baker: I believe all these things were to break keys through exhaustion of every variants of Perl code. possible key combination. But with public key encryption, it is far easier to increase the PGP - Pretty Good Privacy length of the key than tO increase the cracking http://netaccess.on.ca/ugali/crypt/index/html ability of supercomputers. Diva: We're looking at a site now that deals Diva: It makes me feel like the search for Truly with PGP, which as most people know stands Strong Encryption is like the search for a Holy for Pretty Good Privacy -- an encryption Grail. If what looks like strong encryption software programmed written by Phil roday becomes Swiss cheese tomorrow, who Zimmermann and distributed widely. can we trust? Why bother to use any encryption? Stewart, if everyone in the world adopted PGP to send their e-mail to each other, would that Stewart Baker: First, most people in this totally thwart the government's attempts to business are too quick to assume that gain access to encrypted conversations? decryption is easy. I have heard many cypherpunks refer to 40-bit encryption as "toy Stewart Baker: It would certainly make the encryption" or as "trivial to break." lives of investigators much more difficult. People who use encryption, even very good Diva: Even two-bit encryption would stop me encryption, often make mistakes. Law dead in my tracks. enforcement could exploit those mistakes.

Stewart Baker: Both the Los Angeles Police Diva: We're talking about these encryption Department and the French government have programs as if they're easy to use. But I had great difficulty dealing with encryption at imagine a very small percentage of the public even that strength. who uses modems actually uses encryption. Is that because people are uninformed about the Diva: Who was using such encryption to try to importance of the issue? Or is it because thwart the authorities? Do you know? encryption in its current incarnation is too Stewart Baker: I don't have details on particular hard to use?

12 Stewart Baker: It's not lack of information so Diva: And anyone who uses a Web browser much as a conviction that most of what we should be aware that the browser company transmit doesn't require encryption. One of may be giving personal information about its the dumbest things that industry has done in users to the administrators of Web sites that the debate is to insist that encryption is their users visit: e-mail address name ... age ... necessary for credit card numbers on the and any other registration information. In that Internet. sense, we're giving away our own privacy.

Diva: It's not? Web Browsers & Privacy r http://www.uiuc.edu/-ejk/WWW­ Stewart Baker: I have yet to hear of a single privacy.html instance in which credit cards were stolen through eavesdropping on the Net and used to Stewart Baker: Yes. I think Americans would buy products. Meanwhile, we've scared off the be better off if they took a slightly more consumers whose purchases would help to European view to privacy. We see government build a truly robust Net infrastructure. as a great threat to privacy; Europeans see businesses as the principal threat. We should Diva: This brings me to a key question (no probably worry more about business invasions pun intended): Do we have any idea how often of privacy than we do. someone -- a hacker, for instance-- is intercepting data transmissions such as e-mail Diva: But doesn't the United States over the Net? government hold a huge amount of personal information at its fingertips? The IRS? The Stewart Baker: I'm not a technologist, but it's Social Security Administration? HHS? NSA?? my understanding that eavesdropping on the Internet is a lot harder than most people Stewart Baker: Yes, they do. But it's not clear believe. The packets are traveling separately that they have more personal information than across the Net and are often reassembled only the credit rating bureaus and the insurers. on the user's servers. So eavesdropping between servers is often extremely difficult. Sparky: And doesn't the government have stricter policies about the cross-referencing AskMe: With the current level of encryption and centralization of that information than available, just how vulnerable are credit card private business? numbers to being intercepted? Stewart Baker: Certainly, the government has Stewart Baker: I think the risk is low. First, it's many more laws preventing the gathering and only going to cost you fifty dollars if it compilation of such information than private happens. Second, it requires access to a industry. That reflects our bias against machine along the path of the message you government invasions of privacy. sent. Finally, you have to ask yourself whether you treat your physical card with great care. Diva: You're guaranteeing that the IRS won't Most people hand it to a guy earning minimum give my tax returns to NSA if asked?? wage and wearing a ponytail and let him keep it 10 minutes a week! Stewart Baker: It would be illegal for NSA to ask -- and illegal for the IRS to provide it. The Diva: You're referring to Sparky? government probably doesn't pay civil servants enough for them to take that risk. Sparky: (Hey!) The Stalker's Page Stewart Baker: If you're willing to do that, you http://pages.ripco.com:8080/-glr/stalk.html can probably trust your card to the Net.

13 Diva: This is the Stalkers' Page. Why does it shocked you? comes as a big surprise that this kind of personal information is available online when Stewart Baker: No. Although I sometimes these public databases have been available off­ have been surprised about the extent of line for years? As a newspaper reporter, I was people's knowledge of public facts about me. able to use public databases to look up all kinds of really personal information about Diva: Such as? friends, colleagues, neighbors ... old college roommates .... Stewart Baker: I remember seeing an e-mail posting criticizing my position on encryption Stewart Baker. ... boyfriends ... and mentioning the town that I lived in.

Diva: Everything from their current addresses Diva: Did that make you feel vulnerable? to how big of a mortgage they held. to whether they were registered Republicans or Stewart Baker: When you work at NSA, you Democrats. I wonder if the average person has get used to the idea chat somebody is probably any sense at all of how exposed we all are. For trying to listen to all of your conversations. instance: Our addressees are probably accessible through the databases on this Web Anonymity site. http://www.suck.urc.rue.ni/-galacrus/ remailers/index-anon.html Stewart Baker. Yes, and this is part of the power of the Net. What you used to be able to Diva: Anonymous remailers are computers do only if you were in the business of that act as post office boxes on the Net. You gathering information anyone can do today can just sign up for one with a number and with a click of a mouse. drop off and pick up your e-mail there without revealing your identity. Don't anonymous Anonymity and Privacy on the Internet remailers totally subvert government attempts http://www.stack.urc.tue.nl/-galactus/ at surveillance, since the identity of the person remailers/index/html sending a data tra·nsmission remains secret?

Diva: Of course, what probably saves us is the Stewart Baker: They can -- although we've all fact that the average person is far less nosy seen rumors to the effect that some of these than I am .... remailers are operated by secret services of vanous governments. Sparky: (and she's pretty nosy) Diva: Do you believe the rumors? Diva: and wouldn't want to spend the time looking up the amount of his next door Stewart Baker: It would be cheap fun for neighbor's mongage. government agents. So it would surprise me if someone hadn't tried it at least once. Stewart Baker. Yes, this is security through being boring. Diva: In your opinion, should our government try to regulate the use of anonymous remailers Diva: For years it worked. in anyway?

Stewart Baker. For some of us, it still does. Stewart Baker. Anonymous remailers are not widely used. At one point, they had nearly Diva: Have you ever had a situation in your life disappeared because of concern about liability where someone found out something about for threatening messages through them. you -- something personal that you didn't know was in the public domain-- and it Diva: The owner of the computer could be

14 liable for the content sent through the from now would be difficult. Diffie's prime computer? contribution will be remembered as his use of digital signatures, rather than encryption. Stewart Baker: This is America -- anybody could be liable for anything! Diva: Could you explain what digital signatures are? Steganography http://www.stack.urc.tue.ni/-galactus/ Stewart Baker: They are the flip side of public remailers/index-stego.html key encryption. If I can encrypt a message with my private key, it can be decrypted with Stewart Baker: Seriously, if providing my public one. Since I'm the only one who anonymity prevented the police from tracing a knows my private key, I'm the only one that criminal message, the risk of liability can't be can send messages that my public key can ignored. decrypt.

Diva: If I were a kidnapper, I'd send all ransom Diva: Stewart, can you predict where all this is demands through a remailer in Holland. headed? What will our nation view of encryption be in, say, a year? or five years? Stewart Baker: I'd recommend sending it through about ten. Even in Finland, Stewart Baker: We are already beginning to see Scientologists were able to break the secrecy of other countries jump into this debate. Some, anonymous remailers though government like France, are trying to control encryption cooperation. strictly. Others, like Japan, seem to favor a more laissez-faire approach. In the long run, CryptoRebels my guess is that the United States will have a http://www.stack.urc.tue.nl/-galactus/ mix of strong encryption and escrowed remailers/index-stego.html encryption, while other countries will rely on escrowed encryption. Diva: Back to cryptography. We can thank a scientist named Whit Diffie for the start of the Ask.Me: What are the merits of having an crypto revolution. In the 1970s, he figured out encryption standard for doing business over how to split the key that decodes encrypted the Net? data. He devised a system in which each user has both a public and private key unique to the Stewart Baker: What we need for Internet owner. Distribute your public key to people transactions is a secure payment system. Those who want to send you messages; use your systems will use encryption. Once we have private key to decode the transmission. Of those, there won't be a risk of credit card fraud course, Diffie did not envision a time when a and impersonation. copy of a key might be escrowed. I think his purpose was to make sure that third parties Businesses will still want some encryption to would not be involved. In this way, the make sure their trade secrets are protected, but encryption would be considered stronger. we could have a very robust economy in Stewart, what would we do today if Diffie cyberspace if we just have digital signatures hadn't made this breakthrough discovery? and cryptography for credit cards.

Public Key Cryptography Diva: We're out of time for today, http://raphael.math.uic.edu/-jeremy/ unfortunately, so we'll say goodbye. Thank crypt/pub_ key.html you again, Stewart, for joining us today.

Stewart Baker: Without encryption, we could Stewart Baker: It was a pleasure. l8J do most of the things we're doing today. But most of the things we expect to do five years

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