Someone who won't put his name to things he writes wrote: At 04:05 AM 10/3/96 -0400, Anonymous wrote:

+ --- begin forwarded text + + "Keys" are strings of computer code that lock and unlock data. Key recovery + is an approach that permits the recovery of lost or damaged keys without the + need to store or "escrow" them with a third party. This approach could also + meet the needs of law enforcement to act under the authority of a court order + without risking the confidentiality of business data.

Just wondering how much of a problem "damaged keys" really are in practice. Is this something specific to Microsoft filesystems or really cheap tape drives? I've never seen that problem under Unix, and something like a private RSA key doesn't change very often, so you would expect to have encrypted copies of it on many backup tapes.

Or maybe this journalist, like most, doesn't know what the fuck he's talking about?

To which this card-carrying member of the media replies: Companies cited in the PRESS RELEASE - that means public relations product, not journalism product - were involved in signing off on what went into the release. By definition, no member of the press was involved in producing this document It seems directing questions to the companies would be a good idea. Will Rodger Washington Bureau Chief Interactive Week.