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Trent Lott: “Even though a national recovery system would be technically unfeasible, costly, and violates an individual's privacy…”

On the recordJune 17, 1998
Even though a national recovery system would be technically unfeasible, costly, and violates an individual's privacy rights, the Administration continues to require key escrow as a precondition for relaxing America's encryption policy. Again, Mr. President, I would point out that state-of-the-art encryption is available in the international marketplace without key recovery and without backdoor access. This backdoor door requirement is simply backward thinking policy. It does not make sense to hold the computer industry hostage to force the creation of such an unworkable system.
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Discussing encryption policy and key escrow requirements during a Senate floor debate.

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