From: tcmay@sensemedia.net (Timothy C. May)
Date: Sun, 6 Aug 95 16:27:06 PDT
To: Matt Miszewski <cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: MS Money password problem
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At 7:34 PM 8/21/95, Matt Miszewski wrote:
>We recently lost (ok fired) our office manager, but not before she put
>nifty passwords on all the MS Money data we had and now she has, of
>course, gone on a three week vacation.  I have all the relevant WP
>password retrieving mechanisms but not one for MS Money.
>
>Anyone with pointers or programs, your help would be greatly appreciated.

This, of course, is the rationale for the "key escrow" systems (as opposed
to the government-mandated "key escrow" proposals, which are not an
"escrow" sytem of this kind).

"Escrow" is sufficiently overloaded with real estate connotations that I
wish the industry would adopt a different term. Carl Ellison's "GAK" is
cute, but is hardly likely to ever be adopted widely.

(No, I'm not calling for another round of suggested names, just opining
that "key escrow" is a terrible name.)

--Tim May

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