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Re: My chat with Goeff Greiveldinger

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Duncan Frissell)
Sun Oct 15 17:53:23 1995

Date: Sun, 15 Oct 1995 17:49:31 -0400 (EDT)
From: Duncan Frissell <frissell@panix.com>
To: Black Unicorn <unicorn@polaris.mindport.net>
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.951015171748.22497A-100000@polaris.mindport.net>


> You also might point out that commercial escrow is in a way MORE prone to 
> compromise because it effectively doubles the number of entities entitled 
> to demand release of the keys.

Actually, any publically known escrow system opens your communications to 
any lawyer who gets a blanket discovery subpoena.  

These are very popular these days and often include third parties to any 
lawsuit.  Anyone who can convince a judge to issue an order...


DCF

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