No SKE in Daytona and other goodies

A technical question about the proposed SKE schemes: are they a proper superset of non-escrowed pgp/ripem type systems I'm not sure what you mean by superset, but I suspect that however you interpret it, the answer is no. As a previous poster mentioned, users could select null or locally controlled key escrow agents, and effectively have a non-escrowed system. The system I've seen (Whit's recollection of Steve Walker's) did not allow a cooperating party to interoperate with a non-cooperating party. In other words, both correspondents must comply with gov't key surrender, or neither. Matt or Whit can comment better, since they've seen it first hand. Eric