Observer Leader calls for escrow

[Adrian Midgley]

From: Ben Laurie <ben@algroup.co.uk>

>Of course, there's still the question why anyone thinks a terrorist
>would be insane enough to "give the electronic key to the appropriate
>police authority in advance" - I can just see it now:


<g>
If the aim is to determine which encrypted communications are from
announced, licencesed and authorised users, then requiring them to announce
it, issuing a licence and authorising them to use encryption is
sufficient...no need to decrypt.

Therefore the intention must be to actually read all encrypted comms,
mechanically or by human, a large diversion of effort from more useful
things.

SO the plan would be to read _all_ mail, encrypted or not, pick out all
encrypted mail, and try to read that using the escrowed keys, and then go
round searching for teh originators of all resistant mail.

It seems unfeasaible.
SImpler to go round searching for them to start with I think.