Global Internet Trust Register

[Ross Anderson]

I've just got the 1999 Global Internet Trust Register from MIT Press.
This book contains the world's most important 1000 or so public keys;
we conceived it in response to the previous government's TTP
proposals, which would have banned it. When Nigel and friends sold the
old government's line to the new government, we took a copy of the
1998 edition round to Chris Smith and asked him why he wanted to ban
our book. I believe this was what got escrow on to the cabinet agenda.

So it's already played some small role in history.

The MIT press page is: 

   http://mitpress.mit.edu/book-home.tcl?isbn=0262511053

The 1998 edition can be downloaded free from:

   http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Research/Security/Trust-Register/index.html

Now that the MIT Press has taken over the title, it looks unlikely
that a return to the Ian Taylor proposals will ever be possible. The
US Constitution takes a dim view of governments banning books

Ross