Re: Gore's "new and improved" key escrow proposal

Tim May said:

Others here will have a clearer idea than I have, but I don't think a "software standard" is what is now being planned. Software-only solution cannot possibly have the security that's needed [...]

My reading of the BSA blurb was that software key escrow really is being planned: "software implementable [and] based on a non-classified encryption formula". Yes, this sounds pretty silly. I don't see how you could possibly prevent a rogue phone from interoperating with a fascistic one. Guess I need to snarf the original document. Eli ebrandt@hmc.edu