[66782] in Cypherpunks
Key-Escrow
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scottauge@aol.com)
Sun Sep 29 14:26:51 1996
From: Scottauge@aol.com
Date: Sun, 29 Sep 1996 14:13:27 -0400
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
I have a question.
There seems to be a lot of excitement over the key escrow stuff da gubermint
is trying to install.
Couldn't one burn off maybe 10 ** 200 keys and say, hey gubermint dude, these
are like, gonna be my keys.
Wouldn't this place them into a brute force search if they wanted to play
with your info?
Doing this will likely add to the tax burden for all dem disk drives needed
to store them numbers. :(
If ya can't do that, then they must be gonna sell key space like da radio
spectrm - which means some number is gonna mean something to someone
somewhere - yum yum say the hackers and the crackers.
I'm thinking there will be a way no matter what happens....
