At 12:49 PM 9/18/96, Declan McCullagh wrote:
On Tue, 17 Sep 1996, Timothy C. May wrote:
(BTW, I predict that the tainted term "key escrow" is now gone from the official lexicon. I haven't seen the Clipper IV proposal, but I surmise that the baggage the term "key escrow" carries means that some more benign-sounding term will be used in the final proposal. Something like "Key Recovery System." You heard it here.)
I agree, of course. But Gore's office has been telling me about the "Key Recovery System" for months. It's nothing new in the DC cryptolexicon.
Yeah, I shouldn't have added the "You heard it here" line, implying I had invented the term. As others have noted, this seems to be the new term for key escrow. The brainwashing must've taken hold on me, and as a good citizen-unit I had absorbed the message: "Key Recovery is Security, Ignorance is Strength." --Tim May We got computers, we're tapping phone lines, I know that that ain't allowed. ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay@got.net 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Higher Power: 2^1,257,787-1 | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."