Not key escrow, key recovery
snow
snow at smoke.suba.com
Sun Sep 14 19:32:05 PDT 1997
>>It is quite probable that this has been said before. In case it hasn't,
>>however, I feel compelled to point out that mandatory key escrow/recovery
>>could likely mean an economic disaster of unimaginable proportions.
> (Underpaid clerk steals secret keys, etc.)
> Wake up. It's not key escrow, it's key recovery. Every message will be
> encrypted with a LEAF (law enforcement access field). This is an additional
> recipient who can decrypt the message. No user or corporate secret
> keys are escrowed. You're working with yesterday's scenario.
Oh, great. So there will be a few hundred LEAKs (Law Enforcement
Agency Keys) laying around on hard drives all over the country so these
LEA's can decrypt the messages. Great.
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