[44890] in Cypherpunks
Re: GAK
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Daniel Miskell)
Thu Dec 7 08:41:35 1995
Date: Thu Dec 7 08:37:59 1995
From: Daniel Miskell <DMiskell@envirolink.org>
Reply-To: DMiskell@envirolink.org
To: SBinkley@atitech.ca
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
Scott Binkley writes:
>I heard a while back about being able to "split" up a PGP key. What
>about
>splitting up the key into many parts, and giving them out to multiple
>INDEPENDANT
>agencies. ie: One piece goes to the FBI, one to the NSA, one to some
>other committee, and
>so on. That way, no goverment body could just tap your conversations
>without getting
>approval from others, and gaining the pieces of your key.
>
>just a thought
Why give them your key in the first place? Personally, I wouldnt trust any
government agency with even a fraction of my key - what makes you think they
arent *allready* working together? Then you have effectively given your key,
and all of your private mail, to the government, no restrictions.
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