From: lucifer@dhp.com (lucifer Anonymous Remailer)
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 1997 02:37:49 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Key Ass-crow
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Paul Bradley wrote:
> > Can someone explain the difference between key recovery and key
> > escrow? 

> Key escrow is where your keys are held by one or more trusted and
> supposedly independent third parties, on reciept of a court order they
> would release the keys.

  Kind of like trusting a friend not to bugger you while you are
drunk and passed out. (But he can't prevent the police from hauling
you in for public intoxication and locking you up with someone who
might do so.)

> But in the end it all comes down to GAK (government access to keys), same
> shit, different name. 

  This is much like having a Dominatrix who chains you to the toilet
and brings out a mixed bag of utensils and instruments which are about
to be used for purposes that are a far cry from what they were created
for, and to access areas that Nature never intended to be subjected to
large amounts of sunshine.

  Perhaps someone should come out with a GAK T-shirt which has a
citizen "assuming the position" while a GAK cop stands behind him
with a crowbar stuck halfway up the citizen's ass, and saying,
"If you don't have anything to hide, then you have nothing to
worry about."

AssMonger