NODE 677c75e6Re: Australian "Walsh" report exposes the hole in key escrow
lcs Mixmaster Remailer <mix@anon.lcs.mit.edu>Tue, 1 Jul 1997 00:07:22 +0800
John Davidson wrote:
> The US National Institute of Standards and Technology recently made a
> worldwide plea for cryptography algorithms that can be used for
> authentication and not for encryption.
And, of course, cannot be used to authenticate encryption keys. Oh, but
they're just binary data, aren't they? So those Evil Terrorists(tm) will
simply use their magic authentication-only keys to authenticate their
secret un-surrendered encryption keys and they're off.
SignatureMonger