Key-Escrow

I have a question.

There seems to be a lot of excitement over the key escrow stuff da gubermint
is trying to install.

Couldn't one burn off maybe 10 ** 200 keys and say, hey gubermint dude, these
are like, gonna be my keys.

Wouldn't this place them into a brute force search if they wanted to play
with your info?

Doing this will likely add to the tax burden for all dem disk drives needed
to store them numbers. :(

If ya can't do that, then they must be gonna sell key space like da radio
spectrm - which means some number is gonna mean something to someone
somewhere - yum yum say the hackers and the crackers.

I'm thinking there will be a way no matter what happens....

At 2:13 PM -0400 9/29/96, Scottauge@aol.com wrote:
>I have a question.
>
>There seems to be a lot of excitement over the key escrow stuff da gubermint
>is trying to install.
>
>Couldn't one burn off maybe 10 ** 200 keys and say, hey gubermint dude, these
>are like, gonna be my keys.

This has been discussed many times, even very recently. You don't think key
registration will be _free_, do you? Not many licenses are.

(Ignoring the issue of 10^200 being a lot more than there are particles in
the Universe, now estimated to be 10^75 elementary particles.)

--Tim May

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: Couldn't one burn off maybe 10 ** 200 keys and say, hey gubermint dude, these
: are like, gonna be my keys.

At 15 bucks a pop, even Bill Gates couldn't afford to register that
many keys.