Re: patent office and key recovery

[ulf@fitug.de (Ulf M�ller)]

>	"The agency wants to include a "key recovery" system in the
>	software in case the encryption has to be broken."
>
>The mind boggles.

The Patent Office is obliged to submit all patent applications to the
spooks for review (as patent attorney Axel Horns pointed out on
another list). So there is little "need" for "recovery" even from the
government point of view, other than getting people to use key escrow.