From: Matt Blaze <mab@research.att.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 1996 22:03:16 -0700 (PDT)
To: Adam Shostack <adam@homeport.org>
Subject: Re: Netescrow & Remailers?
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Adam Shostack writes:
>Timothy C. May wrote:
>
>| I don't think "escrow" is the salient feature of what Adam is hinting at,
>| or at least it's now what I'm focussing on here. Rather, I think the really
>| intriguing thing is using _logical_ names for remailers, and not
>| necessarily tying them to specific accounts, specific account owners, or
>| specific sites. ("Call by name," if you will.) This could make remailers
>| more persistent.
>
>Netescrow is a system that Matt Blaze proposed to do key escrow such
>that the recovery of a key must be public.

Someone wrote me a while back asking about using oblivious key escrow
("netescrow") to build a remailer.  I was a bit skeptical of using
exactly the mechanism that I outlined in my paper on the subject,
but I think the idea raises some intersting avenues to look at.

I'll try to dig up the message I sent on the subject.

-matt

The paper in question, by the way, can be found at:
	ftp://research.att.com/dist/mab/netescrow.ps