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Re: Difference in terms

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Stewart)
Thu May 15 13:00:28 1997

Date: Wed, 14 May 1997 23:43:37 -0700
To: Adam Back <aba@dcs.ex.ac.uk>
From: Bill Stewart <stewarts@ix.netcom.com>
Cc: lutz@as-node.jena.thur.de, cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <199705091300.OAA02217@server.test.net>
Reply-To: Bill Stewart <stewarts@ix.netcom.com>

>Lutz Donnerhacke <lutz@as-node.jena.thur.de>writes:
>>   key recovery is if I can get my key
>>   key escrow is if you can get my key

"Key Escrow" was "We want your keys".
"Software Key Escrow" was "OK, Clipper was a loser, but we want your keys"
"Public Key Infrastructure" was "Here, have some keys"
"Trusted Third Party" was "Hey, trust us, we want your keys"
"Key Recovery" is "OK, that didn't work, but we still want your keys"


#			Thanks;  Bill
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