Adam Back wrote:
However the biggest point of all is that: communications keys are more valuable to any attacker (government, unscrupulous little brother, or industrial spy) than storage keys.
I would be interested to see any one willing to burn their reputational capital refuting that simple point.
That point is the simple central starting point for all arguments about the dangers of allowing recovery information to be transmitted with the communication. Recovery information should be local whereever possible. Bruce Schneier had harsh words to say about violating this principle in one of his recent cypherpunks posts.
Anyone notice the court ruling in regard to the company that sued to retrieve information that was inside an employee's head, claiming that his employment agreement made *all* of his ideas the property of the company. Anyone notice that the Thought Judge ruled that the Thought Laws required the individual to divulge said ideas, or be imprisoned by the Thought Police? Real-Time Message Recovery = Real-Time Thought Recovery PGP/CMR = Digital Brain Implants Government Access to Thoughts = Government Access to Brains TruthMonger