At 1:56 AM 7/19/95, rick hoselton wrote:

In the event of legally required key registration, I would like to continue to use PGP. My private RSA key is my own business, so I would like to comply with the requirements by registering my IDEA keys instead. There are approximately 2**128 of them, and I'm not quite sure which one will be used next, so can I just register ALL of them? Can I do this on-line? If all the cypherpunks use the same key set, must we each register all of them, or will a single list do?

It seems likely to me that an actual GAK system will require some fee per key. For example, one might have to send in a form, maybe a diskette, and a $25 per key fee for "handling costs." This is the way automobile registrations are handled (and they have become a "revenue source"..I pay $450 per year to register my truck!!!). This makes trying to register 2^128 keys rather expensive. --Tim May .......................................................................... Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay@sensemedia.net | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero 408-728-0152 | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Corralitos, CA | black markets, collapse of governments. Higher Power: 2^756839 | Public Key: PGP and MailSafe available. "National borders are just speed bumps on the information superhighway."