Banning Anonymity As Well (was Re: How I Would Ban Strong Crypto

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On 15 Jul 96 at 11:53, Bill Frantz wrote:
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> I still think this whole GAK thing is going to fail on the, "Which
> government?" question.  I don't see either multi-nationals or their
> governments wanting to share their secrets with each other, and I don't see
> how to set up universal GAK to prevent that form of industrial espionage. 
> Also, the key which decodes the GAKed data is just too valuable and too
> easy to steal.

Assuming the info is encrypted with one GAK key, yes.  There might be 
a series of keys, perhaps for each escrow agency, or an id-number 
that identifies the key.

Note that such methods will not allow much anonymitiy, since each 
communication must be escrowed.  The method used to id. the key can 
be used to trace a sender or receiver's id.


Rob
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