Though I hate the conmcept of key escrow, it actually makes sense for corporations to be able to have access to internal documents. Why they think having key escrow in place will stop people from being able to use other encryption as well is beyond me. I guess it's the same (stupid) mentality of the feds. They don't think anyone would be smart enough to use the escrowed encryption a a wrapper for the non-escrowed encryption. amp ------------------------ From: Martin Minow <minow@apple.com> Subject: New PGP "Everything the FBI ever dreamed of" Date: Fri, 03 Oct 1997 07:30:33 -0700 To: risks@csl.sri.com Cc: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net An article in today's (Fri, Oct 3) New York Times (CyberTimes) <http://www.nytimes.com/library/cyber/week/100397pgp.html> describes the new release of "PGP for Business Security 5.5," which contains mechanisms that incorporate key recovery mechanism that can either be volontary or be enforced by using PGP's software for controlling a company's SMTP server -- the server can verify that all encrypted messages include the corporate public key (or conform to other corporate policies): =snip= ---------------End of Original Message----------------- ------------------------ Name: amp E-mail: amp@pobox.com Date: 10/04/97 Time: 00:52:55 Visit me at http://www.pobox.com/~amp == -export-a-crypto-system-sig -RSA-3-lines-PERL #!/bin/perl -sp0777i<X+d*lMLa^*lN%0]dsXx++lMlN/dsM0<j]dsj $/=unpack('H*',$_);$_=`echo 16dio\U$k"SK$/SM$n\EsN0p[lN*1 lK[d2%Sa2/d0$^Ixp"|dc`;s/\W//g;$_=pack('H*',/((..)*)$/) == 'Drug Trafficking Offense' is the root passphrase to the Constitution. Have you seen http://www.public-action.com/SkyWriter/WacoMuseum ------------------------