From: tcmay@sensemedia.net (Timothy C. May)
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 95 19:21:18 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Mandatory key registration
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At 1:56 AM 7/19/95, rick hoselton wrote:
>In the event of legally required key registration,
>I would like to continue to use PGP.  My private RSA
>key is my own business, so I would like to comply
>with the requirements by registering my IDEA keys
>instead.  There are approximately 2**128 of them, and
>I'm not quite sure which one will be used next, so
>can I just register ALL of them?  Can I do this on-line?
>If all the cypherpunks use the same key set, must we each
>register all of them, or will a single list do?

It seems likely to me that an actual GAK system will require some fee per key.

For example, one might have to send in a form, maybe a diskette, and a $25
per key fee for "handling costs."

This is the way automobile registrations are handled (and they have become
a "revenue source"..I pay $450 per year to register my truck!!!).

This makes trying to register 2^128 keys rather expensive.

--Tim May

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