From: Berzerk <berzerk@xmission.xmission.com>
To: wcs@anchor.ho.att.com
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UTC Datetime: 1994-07-24 18:03:30 UTC
Raw Date: Sun, 24 Jul 94 11:03:30 PDT
From: Berzerk <berzerk@xmission.xmission.com>
Date: Sun, 24 Jul 94 11:03:30 PDT
To: wcs@anchor.ho.att.com
Subject: Re: "Key Escrow" --- the very idea
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On Sun, 24 Jul 1994 wcs@anchor.ho.att.com wrote:
> > 2. multiple escrow agencies, at least one of which is the NSA HQ
> > (for its superior physical security)
>
> They're the *last* people I want involved with routine communications
> between ordinary people. They're an agency that should probably be
> abolished, but at most they should stick to providing secure communications
> for the military; I don't want military police agencies or even Federal
> civilian police agencies getting involved in civil commerce,
Remember, any 1 key gets nuked, you are safe. I personaly would use the
NSA as one of them if I was running a buisness where key escrow made
sense, for exactly the reasons they gave, and would trust it even more if
they had a mandate to distroy them on mass seazure. This is not a mater
of puting absolute trust in one agancy, but trusting one agency to act
*in* *one* *case* as a great protector, namely, if we are invaded, they
would no doubt distroy their database, and your privacy would be protected.
Long shot, but so is 2^128.
Berzerk.
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