[752] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: key recovery vs data backup
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Carl Ellison)
Thu May 8 11:51:36 1997
Date: Thu, 08 May 1997 01:36:41 -0400
To: jsw@netscape.com
From: Carl Ellison <cme@cybercash.com>
Cc: Kent Crispin <kent@songbird.com>, cryptography@c2.net
In-Reply-To: <33715B78.CFD69BEF@netscape.com>
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At 09:50 PM 5/7/97 -0700, Jeff Weinstein wrote:
>Carl Ellison wrote:
>> I was saying that if Sam needs to read my encrypted file/mail, then I
>> should list Sam as a crypto-recipient. If Acme,Inc. needs to read my
>> encrypted file/mail, then I should list Acme,Inc. as a crypto-recipient.
>>
>> There's no safe of keys. It's even simpler to explain to an
>> executive.
>
> And the government can just mandate that all encryption software add
>US Govt. Escrow Agency as a recipient. Isn't this what Lotus did?
>This is a lot scarrier to me than the Government having to get a court
>order and present it to a company to get access to an encrypted message.
Of course the gov't can try to do that....and we can fight the bald
attempt at invasion of privacy. It's better that way than with the
court order because it's easier to fight...has more public sympathy
against the gov't.
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