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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