Timothy C. May says:
(The scenario I think is likely: SKE is put in at the OS level, perhaps with these SLIP/PPP/TCP-IP protocols. Ostensibly "voluntary," it actually won't be, because selection of "escrow agents" will be from a list of approved entities. A *truly* voluntary system would allow complete bypassing, or selection of a "bit bucket" as the escrow agent. Fat chance.)
They can build what they like, Tim. The protocols being defined right now by the IETF do not include provisions for escrow. Thus far, no one from the NSA, or even TIS, has come up to me and said that I should change the draft RFCs that I am writing. Any such OS support for SKE in Microsoft software would not be interoperable with anyone else's software. Since the bulk of the internet does not run on Microsoft platforms, and since Microsoft doesn't sell things like routers and the like, even Microsoft has to interoperate if they want their packets to move past the local ethernet. Perry