From: David Rosoff <drosoff@arc.unm.edu>
Date: Thu, 4 Jul 1996 05:25:28 +0800
To: jim bell <snow@smoke.suba.com>
Subject: Re: But what about the poor?
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At 09.29 PM 7/2/96 -0800, jim bell wrote:
>At 10:16 PM 7/2/96 -0500, snow wrote:
>>On Tue, 2 Jul 1996, jim bell wrote:
>>> stated policy of the escrow agent is that the key owner MUST be informed, 
>>> what are the cops gonna do about it? 
>>> 
>>> Further, how are the cops going to evidence the existence of a valid 
>>> warrant?  (As opposed to a forgery?)
>>
>>     The judge that issues it will digitally sign it. You can check the
>>signature block. 
>
>
>However, what about an UNCOOPERATIVE escrow agent? (one who insists on 
>signed paper, or for that matter insists that the judge himself shows up.)   
>Or one, at least, who sites himself in Borneo, on the top of a 4000 foot 
>mountain, with a 386 laptop computer and a box of floppies, and who promises 
>2 hour services to anybody who shows up?  No email, no fax, no phone, no 
>light, no motor car, not a single luxury....oooops....sorry about that...not 
>even radio.  
>
>Moreover, if the escrow agent is out of the country, can any domestic laws 
>force him to divulge keys?

And anyway, you could just be a kind of escrow agent that will hold the keys
for the key owner, right? You don't have to say that you will provide them to
the government, right?

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