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RE: Escrow agencies closed?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Black Unicorn)
Sat Apr 19 14:30:51 1997
Date: Sat, 19 Apr 1997 11:49:59 -0400 (EDT)
From: Black Unicorn <unicorn@schloss.li>
To: Larry Layten <larry@ljl.com>
cc: Black Unicorn <unicorn@polaris.mindport.net>,
"'Rick Smith'" <smith@securecomputing.com>,
"cryptography@c2.net" <cryptography@c2.net>
In-Reply-To: <01BC4CAE.122D2420@larry2.ljl.COM>
On Sat, 19 Apr 1997, Larry Layten wrote:
> Rick,
>
> 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.
Try employing this effective key recovery scheme which I will be patenting
next week:
Executive summary: Non-governmental key escrow system:
1> Encrypt to public key a and public key b.
2> Alter password on public key b to your first name.
3> Store public key b in swiss safe deposit box.
If you forget your name you probably don't need the data anymore anyhow.
Look ma, no government!
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