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It has been brought up on the Cypherpunks mailing list that Microsoft is
proposing to include public-key escrow as a *built-in* "function" of future
products - Chicago and Daytona have been specifically mentioned.
Is this, in fact, correct? If so, what constraints or limitations are there
on it? Is it an optional capability, and if so, what means are there for
disabling (or better still, completely removing) it? What organization(s)
does Microsoft propose to use as the escrow agent(s) if such public-key
escrow is implemented? What would be the system used (RIPEM, RSA, etc)? If
not an existing algorithm, would the algorithm(s) be made public? What
would be the key size of any such algorithm?
I would appreciate any and all information you could provide regarding this
_very_ serious matter.
Please note that this message has also been sent to the Cypherpunks mailing
list; I am quite sure that the subscribers there would be most interested in
your answers (or failure to answer). I will also take the liberty of
forwarding an unedited copy of your response to this message to the
Cypherpunks mailing list.
David K. Merriman
[email protected]
Finger [email protected] for PGP2.6ui/RIPEM public keys/fingerprints.