| The fact that they are pushing key escrow must indicate that |someone has developed a program that they can't crack and don't |have a back-door to. | I wonder which one it is?
This ignores the basic law of conpiracy theorism: Suspect everyone and everything. I believe the current push to establish key escrow systems, which will inevitably lead to enforced domestic GAK in a number of countries is possibly a double cross. If mandatory GAK is introduced who will be the most likely to ignore the legislation and continue using non-GAK crypto? - The anarchists and other "terrorist" groups of course. This would seem to suggest the govt. is trying to lull these groups into a false sense of security believing their non-GAK crypto to be strong. This would in turn seem to suggest that the NSA, GCCS etc. have broken a number of currently used algorithms that are believed strong by the civilian research community. At the end of the day though this is pure speculation and the spectre of GAK still looms over us and must be defeated, however, as conspiracy theories go I happen to think it is one of my more believable delusions.... Datacomms Technologies web authoring and data security Paul Bradley, Paul@fatmans.demon.co.uk Paul@crypto.uk.eu.org, Paul@cryptography.uk.eu.org Http://www.cryptography.home.ml.org/ Email for PGP public key, ID: 5BBFAEB1 "Don`t forget to mount a scratch monkey"