On Fri, 22 Jul 1994, Carl Ellison wrote:
if you really want to propose an escrow system we can live with, I would demand that it include:
1. unambiguous ID of the person being tapped in the LEAF-equivalent 2. multiple escrow agencies, at least one of which is the NSA HQ (for its superior physical security) 3. watchdogs as escrow agents (e.g., ACLU, Rep & Dem parties, CPSR, EFF, NYTimes, ...) with authorization to look for abuses of authority and to refuse to release keys in such cases and to publicize such cases as well as bringing them to the attention of law enforcement for prosecution.
In theory this would be nice, but it just takes a gun to someone's head to say hand it over... Would you risk your life for other people... And once they kill you, it's a matter of searching through the records for it. It's not that safe. I rather my private key not be in escrow at all...
4. user-generated escrow keys, to reduce the chance of anyone having a backdoor way to get the whole escrow key database.
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