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Re: key recovery vs data backup
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lucky Green)
Tue May 6 19:49:49 1997
Date: Tue, 6 May 1997 16:25:20 -0700 (PDT)
From: Lucky Green <shamrock@netcom.com>
To: Adam Back <aba@dcs.ex.ac.uk>
cc: cryptography@c2.net
In-Reply-To: <199705062221.XAA03550@server.test.net>
On Tue, 6 May 1997, Adam Back wrote:
> Yes, this is some people's stated aim, although this was not the way I
> read Tom's mail, he said: "They need a way to recover from lost keys
> and forgotten password." I would be interested to here if Netscape
> also percieves a customer demand for CKE for the reasons you describe.
This simply attests to the thoroughness with which the GAK forces have
managed to frame the debate. There is zero need for key recover if the
goal is to locally obtain plaintext. However, the vast majority of large
businesses out there have been convinced that they need key recovery to
achieve this goal.
Therefore they are now demanding to be given a specific method for
achieving this goal, the method most beneficial to outside forces.
A truly brilliant deception.
--Lucky
