Re: GMR in the talked-about form here would be unconstitutional

[lutz@taranis.iks-jena.de (Lutz Donnerhacke)]

* Tim May wrote:
>- a patient and doctor who discuss private medical conditions will be
>discussing them with the Thought Police
[...]
>Will a "must encrypt to government key" provision pass constitutional
>muster? I don't think so.

In common enviroments smartcards are used for the example above. Those
smartcards can be only obtained by TTPs, which generate the key pair and
press the secret part on the card. In several countries these TTP are
required to store these private keys for gouvernmental access.

Shure, it's constitutional. You will need a court order to read a special
message with the revealed secret key.

It does not harm, that policy may able to read all previous messages, if
they are stored, because this can't happen. The police is forbitten to do so.