FIPS key recovery meeting
Internaut
unde0275 at frank.mtsu.edu
Tue Dec 10 10:13:20 PST 1996
>Members mentioned a few cases where an employee was unable to decrypt >his
files, but no one knew of a case where an organization was unable to
>obtain shared data (e.g., a database), because it was encrypted. Other
>members seemed reluctant to accept his distinction. They seem to view key
>recovery as a way to audit proper use of organization assets by employees,
>or to protect the organization from malicious acts of employees, or to
>recover data if a custodian is run over by a bus.
pretty funny! think of all the loss of unrecoverable encrypted data from a
custodian run over by a bus!
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