From the Proposal:

"To participate in the network a user needs a public key certificate signed by a CA [Certification Authority] which 'binds' the user's identity to their public key. One condition of obtaining a certificate is that sufficient information (e.g., private keys or other information as appropriate) has been escrowed with a certified escrow authority to allow access to a user's data or communications." ...................................................................... Along with the escrow requirement, I keep seeing in here somewhere the eventuality of a tie being established between public keys and a national identifying scheme, possibly to update and replace the present Social Security system. .. Blanc