New Threat on the Horizon: Software Key Escrow
Sandy Sandfort
sandfort at crl.com
Tue Jul 26 17:11:00 PDT 1994
C'punks,
On Tue, 26 Jul 1994, Jef Poskanzer wrote:
> . . . [description of key escrow scheme]
> I don't see any defense in this description against using someone
> else's public key. The feds could still decrypt such messages,
> but wouldn't know who was talking. At least not from the envelope.
What a business opportunity for the "homeless." They could repeatedly sell
their key pair for hooch. "The gift that keeps on giving" (the keys, that
is, not the hooch).
S a n d y
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