[Fwd: ISAKMP Key Recovery Extensions]

Well, the attached draft is not designed for corporate recovery of
encrypted email, that's for sure.

Cheers,
Frank O'Dwyer.

To: cryptography@c2.net, cypherpunks@algebra.com
Subject: Re: ISAKMP Key Recovery Extensions
From: ulf@fitug.de (Ulf Mller)
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 98 01:47 +0200
In-Reply-To: <199809011443.KAA23307@ietf.org>
Organization: HR13
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>From the IETF's IPSEC Working Group:

	Title		: ISAKMP Key Recovery Extensions
	Author(s)	: T. Markham
	Filename	: draft-rfced-exp-markham-00.txt
	Pages		: 13
	Date		: 31-Aug-98
	
    This document describes the proposed approach for negotiating and
    exchanging key recovery information within the Internet Security
    Association Key Management Protocol (ISAKMP).

ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-rfced-exp-markham-00.txt

In <35F37E90.76109489@brd.ie>, on 09/07/98 
   at 07:34 AM, "Frank O'Dwyer" <fod@brd.ie> said:


>Well, the attached draft is not designed for corporate recovery of
>encrypted email, that's for sure.

4.  ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

This document was produced based on the combined efforts of the protocol
subcommittee of the Key Recovery Alliance.


Why am I not surprised?

I hope the IETF will not accept the implementation of *any* GAK proposals
into the RFC's. If these people want to force Big Brother on us they
should not have the benefit of the IETF to do so.

I plan on writting to the Security Group at the IETF on this. Hopefully it
will not be accepted for consideration. I would like to see the IETF have
a blanket policy automatically rejecting any GAK proposals but that might
be too much to ask.

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