Re: New Threat on the Horizon: Software Key Escrow

[Sandy Sandfort <sandfort@crl.com>]

C'punks,

On Tue, 26 Jul 1994, Jef Poskanzer wrote:

> . . . [description of key escrow scheme]
> I don't see any defense in this description against using someone
> else's public key.  The feds could still decrypt such messages,
> but wouldn't know who was talking.  At least not from the envelope.

What a business opportunity for the "homeless." They could repeatedly sell
their key pair for hooch.  "The gift that keeps on giving" (the keys, that
is, not the hooch). 


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