"Key Escrow" --- the very idea
Ben Goren
ben at Tux.Music.ASU.Edu
Fri Jul 22 09:46:56 PDT 1994
On Fri, 22 Jul 1994, Carl Ellison wrote:
> if you really want to propose an escrow system we can live with,
> I would demand that it include:
>
> [four "features" deleted]
And just who is going to pay for this system? And why should they? And
why should anybody else use it when there're so many other alternatives?
Heck, for that matter, how are you going to get all users of Norton
Encrypt to escrow their DES keys? After all, they might have the disarm
codes for their homebuilt nuke encrypted with that.
Just say NO to key escrow.
b&
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