New Policy: a Labour Party U-turn

[Carl Ellison]

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At 10:27 PM 4/27/98 +0100, Stefek Zaba wrote:
>The *substantial* extra power being sought by (it pains me to say it) the
>Labour Government is to DENY any "organisation" - commercial, co-operative,
>charitable, voluntary, or whatever - the right to SIGN the
>encrypted-message-receipt key of any other person (natural or legal) UNLESS
>the signing organisation also makes key recovery possible - and, one
>presumes, acts as a key-recovery agent at the behest of the warrant issuer.

Does this include the signing of PGP keys?  What about various protocols
that include temporary keys issued and signed by one party of the protocol
[E.g., SPKI's Certificate Result Certificate]?

 - Carl

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