From: monty.harder@famend.com (MONTY HARDER) Date: Wed, 30 Aug 95 23:50:00 -0500 Organization: The First Amendment BBS Regardless of whether Ito allows the tapes into evidence, the public has heard a LEO matter-of-factly discussing the fabrication of evidence against US citizens. We should take advantage of this, by connecting the Fuhrman/Good Ole Boys from BFART bit, and GACK. If my private key must be escrowed with Lawn Forcement Agencies, the very real possibility exists of a Fuhrman using it to forge evidence against me. In =any= Key Escrow arrangement (including the non- government variety preferred by 4 out of 5 Cypherpunks in a recent survey) there must be a division between encryption keys and signature keys. I recommend that anyone who will be using escrowed keys generate two pairs: First, the signature key, including in the userid some kind of [sig use] identifier (we should settle on a standard abbreviation for this) follower by the encryption key. This way, when a person gets your pubkeys, they get the encryption key =last=, which gets it searched first whenever they PGP -e... something. Whatever arrangements are made for escrowing my encryption key, =nobody= gets my signature key. If I am fired, quit, become brain damaged or dead, my key can never be used by anyone to implicate me in any criminal activity. Please don't mention to anyone the fact that my signature key can be used to send me something that even the escrow agents can't read.... * --- * Monster@FAmend.Com *