Re: [Rant]Re: Shell buys key escrow system from TIS

[Bill Stewart <stewarts@ix.netcom.com>]

At 06:20 AM 7/25/96 -0400, Jim Ray wrote:
>Will Rodger,<rodger@interramp.com>
>Washington Bureau Chief of Inter@ctive Week, wrote:
><snips>
>>Administration officials didn't return calls for comment, but it's clear
>>that the Clinton-Gore team have their first "testbed" for trying out key
>>recovery, or key escrow, proposals.
>
>Hmmm.  A new meme, "key recovery" is lots better than "key escrow," but
>I still wonder if I'm ever gonna see a journalist say, "'GAK,' or Govt.
>Access to Keys for cryptography."

I doubt we'll see many non-cyber-journalists saying "GAK", at least in print :-)
But the name "Clipper III" seems to be catching on fairly well,
which has the added benefit if connoting "yet another key-grabbing
attempt after the previous two failures", which I like a lot.

Key recovery is at least quasi-honest, unlike "key escrow";
I'd tend to call the Clintonista's scheme "key registration"
though I've generally found that "master key system" gets the point across
adequately.



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