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RE: Escrow agencies closed?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Larry Layten)
Sat Apr 19 14:32:08 1997
From: Larry Layten <larry@ljl.com>
To: "'Black Unicorn'" <unicorn@polaris.mindport.net>
Cc: "'Rick Smith'" <smith@securecomputing.com>,
"cryptography@c2.net" <cryptography@c2.net>
Date: Sat, 19 Apr 1997 11:00:28 -0500
So you trust Swiss banks?? :-)
Actually, I thought key escrow was a good idea
-- especially if it was mandated for all government encryption.
How better to assure that government records remain
accessable to the public -- even if it had to be by court order.
And who is the real "big brother" going to be? Is it the
government or is it the Microsoft type organizations that
control technology and communications?
Larry
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From: Black Unicorn[SMTP:unicorn@polaris.mindport.net]
Sent: Saturday, April 19, 1997 6:49 AM
To: Larry Layten
Cc: Black Unicorn; 'Rick Smith'; cryptography@c2.net
Subject: RE: Escrow agencies closed?
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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