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1994-07-22 - Re: “Key Escrow” — the very idea

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From: ebrandt@muddcs.cs.hmc.edu (Eli Brandt)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com (cypherpunks list)
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UTC Datetime: 1994-07-22 22:21:08 UTC
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From: ebrandt@muddcs.cs.hmc.edu (Eli Brandt)
Date: Fri, 22 Jul 94 15:21:08 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com (cypherpunks list)
Subject: Re: "Key Escrow" --- the very idea
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> The point here is that if the evil government wants to go busting in on
> your conversations without a warrant, it can't.

Not through the front door.  But if the system is anything like the
present proposal, there's a lot of room for the key-generating entity
to undetectably keep the keyspace to 40 bits, or whatever it can
comfortably crack.

   Eli   ebrandt@hmc.edu

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