At 09:46 PM 3/25/96 -0500, Michael Froomkin wrote:
An interesting issue, likely to be addressed in future judicial assistence treaties...
However, future judicial assistance treaties are meaningless if you store your keys anonymously (domestically or internationally) so that even the keeper doesn't know he has them or exactly where they are in his pile of keys. In general, I think that we should attack government key escrow on economic efficiency grounds by pointing out that it is unlikely that "socialized key escrow" would do as good a job as private enterprise key escrow. The Stalinist method of industrial production, is well known for its inefficiencies and similar inefficiencies attach to government key escrow. In fact, I suppose that government operation of the identification system (drivers' licenses, passports, etc.) in general is also horribly inefficient and should be attacked on efficiency grounds. DCF