From: tcmay@netcom.com (Timothy C. May)
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 94 23:52:30 PDT
To: karn@qualcomm.com (Phil Karn)
Subject: Re: Gore's "new and improved" key escrow proposal
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> 
> I think we need to distinguish between encrypted *storage* and
> encrypted *communications*.  Voluntary key escrow may make sense for
> encrypted stored business files, but communications is a different
> story. Since there should be nobody out there recording packets, there
> is no need to back up or escrow the keys used to encrypt them.
> 
> Phil

But I leave nearly all PGP-encrypted messages to me in encrypted form,
using the "decrypt to screen" option. So communicated and stored
messages are largely the same.

I'm not supporting key escrow, mind you.


--Tim May


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