-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- In article <199510152027.NAA23085@mycroft.rand.org>, jim@acm.org (Jim Gillogly) wrote:

You might try addressing the areas of liability for escrow agents. If private escrow agents can be sued for loss of information due to theft or other authorized or unauthorized release of keys, their liability could be horrendous, depending on the value of the compromised data.

The problem of liability should be managable. There are commercial data storage firms (microfilm, etc.) that not only have access to the key for your data, but to the data itself. Still, liability lawsuits have not driven them out of business. I therefore belive that liability issues will not pose a significant obstacle to commercial key escrow. - --- [This message has been signed by an auto-signing service. A valid signature means only that it has been received at the address corresponding to the signature and forwarded.] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 Comment: Gratis auto-signing service iQBFAwUBMIGMiCoZzwIn1bdtAQHiJQGAlFhXEVKkf329xCbpWHHXYRkMNJUpbdDZ nrEKcYvu9SVt/wlPLSq97sWukyQPxth0 =c5Wl -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----