Bruce Schnier (Author of applied cryptography) and Matt Blaze (Who is a crypto bigwig at at&t) have made it clear that they support key escrow. Both have written letters in favor of the new crypto law, it creates a key escrow system and also other restricts on crypto. The letters are on the CDT homepage and i think were posted here.

Whoever wrote this crap is an idiot. In the preface of Applied Cryptography, (Page xx) on the subject of government key escrow, Schneier states: "Some dangerously Orwellian assumptions are at work here: that the government has the right to listen to private communications and that there is something wrong with a private citizen trying to keep a secret from the government. ...this is the first time people have been forced to make themselves available for surveillance. These initiatives are not simple government proposals in some obscure area; they are pre-emptive and unilateral to usurp powers that previously belonged to the people. Clipper and Digital Telephony do not protect privacy; they force individuals to unconditionally trust that the government will respect their privacy. ... The lesson here is that it is insufficient to protect ourselves with laws; we need to protect ourselves with mathematics. Encryption is too important to be left solely to governments." Schneier goes on to state that the purpose of the book is to ensure that people will have access to strong crypto, even if it is outlawed. It is hard to interpret this as support for government key escrow. Check your facts before slandering people. Jonathan Wienke