transputers again was The dissolution of Commodore 2906
It was definitely underpowered at the time. It was far from the only one. And where is RISC? Well intended. Oh yes, I know, I have to collect them for the Museum...
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key escrow backed (certified) repositories that archived-backed-up keys ... that could be served with federal court warrants. commercial companies could view them as protecting corporate buttets; gov. could view them as convenient location for court orders.
We used to display the Meiko next to a Cray 1, the ETA-10, CM...
... example from some old email somewhere
Commercial Key Escrow:
Charlie Gibbs About fifteen years ago, I might have done the same. But that was because I lived in a tool ghetto: I did not have access to a UNIX system...
Something for Everyone Now and for the Future
Stephen T. Walker Steven B. Lipner Carl M. Ellison Dennis K. Branstad David M. Balenson
Trusted Information Systems, Inc.
January 3, 1995
Summary
A tension has been growing for the past twenty years between the interests of the public to protect its sensitive information and the interests of governments to access the information of their adversaries. The Clipper Key Escrow program, introduced by the U.S. Government in 1993, was an attempt to overcome this tension by giving the public good cryptography while retaining for law enforcement the ability to decrypt communications when authorized. But Clipper has many problems that make it unattractive to the public.
The basic concepts of key escrow are very attractive to individuals and organizations who fear the consequences of losing their encryption keys. A key escrow system that satisfies the concerns of individuals and corporations and also meets governments interests could help resolve this growing national tension.
This paper reviews the reasons for this tension and the evolution of software key escrow systems. It then examines the variety of alternative key escrow systems and describes why the government must take urgent steps to promote commercial key escrow before serious and permanent harm is done to government s law enforcement and national security interests.
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