"Strongly Voluntary" Key Escrow
Bill Frantz
frantz at netcom.com
Fri Dec 15 14:49:01 PST 1995
At 9:10 12/15/95 -0500, Jim Ray wrote:
>"Government Key Certification" might be an OK compromise-term compared
>to "key escrow," but we should [IMNSHO] continue to stick to "GAK." As
>you know, I prefered the term "FUCKED," but now we must be "decent" in
>our communications. <sigh>
I suggest Forced Key Deposit (FKD) (when some non-governmental entity e.g.
an employer forces you to send copies of your keys to some depository), and
Voluntary Key Deposit (VKD), when you chose to deposit a copy of your key
with some third party. I love the way GAK sounds, so I support it even the
whole concept is really FUCKED. Whenever I hear, "Government Key
Certification", I think of digital signatures, not communication privacy.
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