From: tcmay@got.net (Timothy C. May)
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 1996 08:20:22 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: TIS--Building in Big Brother for a Better Tommorrow
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At 12:19 AM 2/23/96, P.J. Ponder wrote:

>The first paragraph here bothered me.  If a user (or an organization)
>needs to have access to data that was encrypted by an associate ( or one
>of its employees) wouldn't sound practice require that the key not be
>entrusted to just one person?  I don't see the need for any fancy
>"key-recovery" protocol with any outside entities.  We can handle this
                                                     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>internally in my shop.  Some keys I give a copy to Alice, and down the
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

This is my perception, too, though I haven't been in Corporate America for
almost a decade. Still, I would encourage people to take this position,
that "we don't need no steenking key escrow!" (to borrow again the B.
Traven phrase I used yesterday)

>hall Bob has some, too.  If I get hit by the bus, they can get my company
>related data back.  We don't need any "service" or "licensee" or "trusted
>third party" or any of that, thank you very much.  And we don't need any
>one developing OTPs for us either, and we don't need government agencies
>keeping copies of any of our keys.

Bravo!

And we should all remember, again, that basic observation: even if "key
escrow" is needed to recover *stored* files, it sure ain't needed for
*communications*!!

The only entity that really has a compelling need for "key escrow" for
_communications_ is Big Bro himself, nto companies or individuals. Think
about it.

TIS is just playing the shill role for Big Brother and the Holding Company.


--Tim May

THE X-ON CONGRESS:  INDECENT COMMENT ON AN INDECENT SUBJECT, by Steve
Russell, American Reporter Correspondent....You motherfuckers in Congress
have dropped over the edge of the earth this time... "the sorriest bunch
of cocksuckers ever to sell out the First Amendment" or suggesting that
"the only reason to run for Congress these days is to suck the lobbyists'
dicks and fuck the people who sent you there," ....any more than I care
for the language you shitheads have forced me to use in this
essay...Let's talk about this fucking indecent language bullshit.