Eight pieces seems too few to me. It's too easy for gov't agencies to "lean on" eight individuals or organizations (someone else suggested "watchdog" groups as fragment holding agencies, but that doesn't seem very good. Groups can change over time, respond to pressure. Putting a lot of fragments in a few hands seems fairly fundamentally flawed). I'd rather see thousands. That way, NO, what you really need to do is tackle the issue of the government rounding up keys in mass, and instituting an orwellian system of spying. To do this, simply make it legal for the escrow agencies to distroy their database as a whole, in fact, make it a REQUIREMENT that they distroy

On Fri, 22 Jul 1994 Mike_Spreitzer.PARC@xerox.com wrote: their database if necessary and enact measures to protect it from abuse. Berzerk.