[579] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: Escrow agencies closed?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adam Shostack)
Sat Apr 19 13:15:41 1997
From: Adam Shostack <adam@homeport.org>
In-Reply-To: <01BC4CAE.122D2420@larry2.ljl.COM> from Larry Layten at "Apr 19, 97 10:40:15 am"
To: larry@ljl.com (Larry Layten)
Date: Sat, 19 Apr 1997 12:01:06 -0500 (EST)
Cc: unicorn@polaris.mindport.net, larry@ljl.com, smith@securecomputing.com,
cryptography@c2.net
Larry Layten wrote:
| I believe that you will find that anyone using encryption for
| serious data processing and data storage will only do so if
| there a key recovery scheme.
Or in cases where data loss (with the possibility of
regeneration) is less worrisome than eavesdroppers.
Also, key recovery is being pushed by the government for
communication as much as storage, and the need for communication key
recovery is far less clear.
Adam
--
"It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once."
-Hume
