NODE f44a57cesoftware key escrow ruse
cme@ellisun.sw.stratus.com (Carl Ellison)Sat, 18 Sep 93 21:15:39 PDT
Isn't it obvious?
1. People try to do key escrow in S/W (rather than refuse to play
along with key registration)
2. By doing so, they lend apparent approval to the idea of
registration.
3. The S/W effort fails, of course.
4. Conclusion: S/W encryption is no good and must be abandoned because
you can't do key registration that way.
It is important not to entertain the notion of registration, even as an
academic exercise, lest the effort be used to claim that some reasonable
person believes key registration is OK.
- Carl