[66787] in Cypherpunks
Re: Key-Escrow
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Timothy C. May)
Sun Sep 29 15:25:29 1996
In-Reply-To: <960929141327_113858214@emout06.mail.aol.com>
Date: Sun, 29 Sep 1996 12:20:36 -0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
From: "Timothy C. May" <tcmay@got.net>
At 2:13 PM -0400 9/29/96, Scottauge@aol.com wrote:
>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.
This has been discussed many times, even very recently. You don't think key
registration will be _free_, do you? Not many licenses are.
(Ignoring the issue of 10^200 being a lot more than there are particles in
the Universe, now estimated to be 10^75 elementary particles.)
--Tim May
We got computers, we're tapping phone lines, I know that that ain't allowed.
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