From: Carl Ellison <cme@clark.net>
Date: Thu, 7 Dec 95 19:24:21 PST
To: pfarrell@netcom.com
Subject: Re: GAK solutions was: Is there a lawyer in the house?
Message-ID: <199512080324.WAA22651@clark.net>
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[By the way, I know that my sig on that message was bogus.  I made the
mistake of editing the message after signing it and sent it before
I stopped to think.]

>Date: Thu, 07 Dec 1995 22:07:00 -0400 (EDT)
>From: Pat Farrell <pfarrell@netcom.com>
>Subject: GAK solutions was: Is there a lawyer in the house?

>Interesting. At the NIST meeting, criteria #5 deals with decrypting
>a conversation with only the key from one end.
>
>I thought that would be hard to implement. But during the discussion,
>they called on Miles Smid [sp?] who was obviously a NIST employee/consultant
>with real knowledge. He suggested that you could encrypt the
>session key with the public key of both parties, and send it along.
>This would allow single ended GAK.

Miles Smid is a NIST employee who is quite knowledgeable about crypto
and Clipper.

>This is not far from the idea that CME proposed that the NSA/FBI/CIA
>publish public keys, and we'll hack a voluntary version of PGP that
>encrypts the session key with the LEA public key -- instant
>voluntary Key Escrow.

I still think that's the only way the gov't will get GAK -- :)

 - Carl

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