How I Would Ban Strong Crypto in the U.S.
Yap Remailer
remailer at yap.pactitle.com
Wed Jul 17 17:58:54 PDT 1996
> There has been some discussion at the last couple of crypto conferences
> about possible ways around this plan. (I guess the idea goes back at
> least a year or two.)
>
> One idea is to register a 2048 bit public key. You have to give the
> secret key to the government in order to use the registry. But what you
> do is to create a second key and embed it in the first. It is, say, a
> 1024 bit key which is the lower half of the 2048 bit key. It has
> different secret factors that nobody but you knows. Then when people
> send you messages they encrypt using this modulus rather than the
> official one.
>
> You get the benefit of the government-sponsored key certificate
> infrastructure, but the government is not able to crack your
> communications.
Sorry, but the government generates all keys. Otherwise people might
mess up and choose insecure keys.
More information about the cypherpunks-legacy
mailing list