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I heard a while back about being able to "split" up a PGP key. What about splitting up the key into many parts, and giving them out to multiple INDEPENDANT agencies. ie: One piece goes to the FBI, one to the NSA, one to some other committee, and so on. That way, no goverment body could just tap your conversations without getting approval from others, and gaining the pieces of your key. just a thought
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On 6 Dec 1995, Scott Binkley wrote: > I heard a while back about being able to "split" up a PGP key. What > about > splitting up the key into many parts, and giving them out to multiple > INDEPENDANT > agencies. ie: One piece goes to the FBI, one to the NSA, one to some > other committee, and > so on. That way, no goverment body could just tap your conversations > without getting > approval from others, and gaining the pieces of your key. > > just a thought > > This is exactly how the clipper works. The unit key is XORed with 160 random bits, the result is given to one government agency, and the random bits are given to another agency. The largest concern I have about wiretapping is not so much that some corrupt law enforcement agents will wiretap me out of malice, but that if I communicate with someone who is being wiretapped, my end of the conversation will be heard as well. I might be giving out sensitive information to some government agent without ever violating any laws and without any reason for the government to believe that I was a criminal. For this reason, I believe that cryptography should not be regulated. I would never trust the government with any of my decryption keys. finger markm@voicenet.com for Public Key http://www.voicenet.com/~markm/ Key info: 0xF9B22BA5 bd24d08e3cbb53472054fa56002258d5 - -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 GAT d- s:- a? C++++ U+++>$ P+++ L++(+++) E--- W++(--) N+++ o- K w--- O- M- V-- PS+++>$ PE-(++) Y++ PGP+(++) t-@ 5? X++ R-- tv+ b+++ DI+ D++ G+++ e! h* r! y? - ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBMMYO4rZc+sv5siulAQHsDAP/dWDLQouo5dx7kZp4wTOFJGB1v3T6Pi8v FuAr7+k1ZfYDeD4J8+Hehrrm8JrPv0MBT9Bg8y560PSt9+9E8rShngH3p2ldYv8q 7XDX81bwJY5wrqweE97duQKmH3l0jTXb/7UMi+R7ESOCmLBhywhDCOO0SRlc3NIQ xK5ty/F90YI= =aQX+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----