[43821] in Cypherpunks
Re: MED_vac
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott Brickner)
Wed Nov 22 16:17:26 1995
To: "Thomas M. Swiss" <tms@tis.com>
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: (Your message of Wed, 15 Nov 1995 15:04:21 EST.)
<199511152004.PAA05104@ziggy.tis.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 1995 15:08:49 -0600
From: Scott Brickner <sjb@universe.digex.net>
"Thomas M. Swiss" writes:
> A (possibly stupid) thought: could commercial key escrow help here?
>
> I very much want hospitals to have fast access to my medical data if
>my broken and bleeding body should come through their door, even if I am
>unconscious and my personal physician cannot be reached. On the other hand,
>I don't want anyone to be snooping through them right now.
Actually, Bell Labs outlines a system which can preserve anonymity
under these circumstances in "The Use of Communications Networks to
Increase Personal Privacy In a Health Insurance Architecture" at
<URL:ftp://ftp.research.att.com/dist/anoncc/privacy.health.ps.Z>.
It's based on their anonymous credit card protocol, which is really a
sort of identity escrow service managed by a remailer. You might find
it interesting.
