[86575] in Cypherpunks
Re: Not key escrow, key recovery
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (snow)
Sun Sep 14 22:58:15 1997
To: nobody@replay.com (Anonymous)
Date: Sun, 14 Sep 1997 21:13:33 -0500 (CDT)
From: "snow" <snow@smoke.suba.com>
Cc: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
In-Reply-To: <199709121430.QAA16638@basement.replay.com> from "Anonymous" at Sep 12, 97 04:30:38 pm
Reply-To: "snow" <snow@smoke.suba.com>
>>It is quite probable that this has been said before. In case it hasn't,
>>however, I feel compelled to point out that mandatory key escrow/recovery
>>could likely mean an economic disaster of unimaginable proportions.
> (Underpaid clerk steals secret keys, etc.)
> Wake up. It's not key escrow, it's key recovery. Every message will be
> encrypted with a LEAF (law enforcement access field). This is an additional
> recipient who can decrypt the message. No user or corporate secret
> keys are escrowed. You're working with yesterday's scenario.
Oh, great. So there will be a few hundred LEAKs (Law Enforcement
Agency Keys) laying around on hard drives all over the country so these
LEA's can decrypt the messages. Great.
