From: Bill Stewart <stewarts@ix.netcom.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 1996 17:16:26 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Banning Anonymity As Well (was Re: How I Would Ban Strong Crypto
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>> Also, the key which decodes the GAKed data is just too valuable and too
>> easy to steal.
>
>Assuming the info is encrypted with one GAK key, yes.  There might be 
>a series of keys, perhaps for each escrow agency, or an id-number 
>that identifies the key.

I predict that the "Access requires two master key agents" feature that
Clipper I pretended to have* gets lost along the way.  It wasn't in
Steve Walker's software key-gakking system that he and Dorothy were
touting a year or so ago, and it's a bit of work to actually implement
in software depending on the encryption methods used.

[* The Clipper I chip didn't actually implement dual GAK agents,
though it could have without much extra effort; that was all part
of the process of loading the chip's master-key in the vault charade,
and could therefore be easily changed later... ]

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