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Re: PGP "master keys"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Shaw)
Thu Apr 27 10:39:31 2006
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Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 22:34:23 -0400
From: David Shaw <dshaw@jabberwocky.com>
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On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 09:53:27PM -0400, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> In an article on disk encryption
> (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/04/26/pgp_infosec/), the following
> paragraph appears:
>
> BitLocker has landed Redmond in some hot water over its insistence
> that there are no back doors for law enforcement. As its
> encryption code is open source, PGP says it can guarantee no back
> doors, but that cyber sleuths can use its master keys if
> neccessary.
>
> What is a "master key" in this context?
It sounds rather like a misunderstanding/mangling of PGP's Additional
Decryption Key feature.
David
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