"With all the demands from Governent to escrow keys, what steps are being taken to protect the these keys and/or backdoors from misuse from people within the Government and those outside of the Government?"
"Would you use escrowed cryptography for your private communications? Who would you trust to hold those keys?"
We have an answer to this one, unfortunately drowned by the various sex scandals of assorted congressional chairmen (and other sex scandal trivia). Mr Freeh recently testified that he wanted access to private communications and was immediately contradicted by the Vice President who stated that Freeh was expressing a personal opinion and not administration policy. Whitehouse spin or a sign that Freeh is loosing his grip? Freeh's attempts to ingratiate himself with the republican party have done him no favours of late. Phill