No SKE in Daytona and other goodies

Eric Hughes hughes at ah.com
Fri Jul 29 12:13:49 PDT 1994


   A technical question about the proposed SKE schemes: are they a
   proper superset of non-escrowed pgp/ripem type systems

I'm not sure what you mean by superset, but I suspect that however you
interpret it, the answer is no.

   As a previous
   poster mentioned, users could select null or locally controlled key
   escrow agents, and effectively have a non-escrowed system. 

The system I've seen (Whit's recollection of Steve Walker's) did not
allow a cooperating party to interoperate with a non-cooperating
party.  In other words, both correspondents must comply with gov't key
surrender, or neither.

Matt or Whit can comment better, since they've seen it first hand.

Eric






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