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Re: Banning Anonymity As Well (was Re: How I Would Ban Strong Crypto
>> Also, the key which decodes the GAKed data is just too valuable and too
>> easy to steal.
>
>Assuming the info is encrypted with one GAK key, yes. There might be
>a series of keys, perhaps for each escrow agency, or an id-number
>that identifies the key.
I predict that the "Access requires two master key agents" feature that
Clipper I pretended to have* gets lost along the way. It wasn't in
Steve Walker's software key-gakking system that he and Dorothy were
touting a year or so ago, and it's a bit of work to actually implement
in software depending on the encryption methods used.
[* The Clipper I chip didn't actually implement dual GAK agents,
though it could have without much extra effort; that was all part
of the process of loading the chip's master-key in the vault charade,
and could therefore be easily changed later... ]
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