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Warning: ZixMail is Key Escrow
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Hettinga)
Thu Jul 8 19:21:51 1999
Date: Thu, 8 Jul 1999 11:03:22 -0400
To: dcsb@ai.mit.edu, cryptography@c2.net
From: Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com>
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Date: Wed, 07 Jul 1999 13:35:50 -0800
From: "Paul Holman" <pablos@fortnocs.com>
Organization: Fort Nocs, Inc.
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: ZixMail is Key Escrow
Sender: owner-cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
Reply-To: "Paul Holman" <pablos@fortnocs.com>
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I was hoping these guys would turn out to be brothers in arms. Not
so.
from <http://www.customtracks.com/Conference.htm>
> Second, Is there a key escrow for ZixMail?
>
> In order to obtain worldwide encryption export approval from the
> Commerce Department - for encryption that the National Security
> Agency cannot break - there is a requirement that a secure key
> escrow be established, normally with a "trusted third party". This
> escrow can be accessed only by court order from a federal court of
> competent jurisdiction.
>
> CustomTracks has been approved to be its own “trusted third party”.
> The escrowed keys, however, are encrypted by public key
> cryptography and can only be decrypted by a private key that is
> unknown to CustomTracks or ZixMail.
Paul Holman
Special Agent
Fort Nocs, Inc.
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Robert A. Hettinga <mailto: rah@ibuc.com>
The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/>
44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA
"... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity,
[predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to
experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'
