[45203] in Cypherpunks
Re: NIST GAK meeting writeup, LONG part 3 of 3
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew Loewenstern)
Mon Dec 11 20:21:31 1995
From: Andrew Loewenstern <andrew_loewenstern@il.us.swissbank.com>
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 95 18:39:07 -0600
To: jim bell <jimbell@pacifier.com>
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
Pat Farrell writes in his report on thi NIST GAK meeting:
>>Geoff said that they may want legislation support for
>>protecting against illegal release of keys, failure to release, etc.
Jim Bell Responds:
> Pardon me, but since this "key escrow" system was always claimed
> to be "voluntary," then how can there be any kind of legal penalties
> associated with "failure to release" those keys?
well, since the subject at hand is Escrow Agent Criteria, "Geoff" is probably
talking about the failure of an escrow agent to release a key upon production
of "lawful authorization" ....
andrew
