key escrow: no news is bad news ?

[Eugen Leitl]

On Sun, Oct 04, 2009 at 05:00:09AM +0000, John Case wrote:
> You don't hear much about key escrow anymore.  In fact, even at the height 
> of the patriot act hysteria, there was little to no talk of key escrow.
> 
> I can't be the first to put forth the conjecture that this is *not* good 
> news ?

I presume it doesn't scale well, and/or they've given up on 
that and look at traffic analysis, interception and storage, and
system compromise by altering packets on the wire, or actual
physical layer compromise once you're interesting enough.

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