Observer Leader calls for escrow

[Brian Gladman]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ben Laurie" <ben@algroup.co.uk>
To: <ukcrypto@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
Sent: Monday, October 01, 2001 9:35 PM
Subject: Re: Observer Leader calls for escrow


> David Swarbrick wrote:
> >
> > Be fair, the leader itself suggests that only legitimate users should
> > deposit keys.
>
> And this would help to combat terrorism how?

I agree that it won't but the 'logic' sometimes quoted by advocates is that
criminals inevitably have to communicate with honest people at times so,
while you can't get at 'criminal to criminal' encrypted messages through key
escrow, this does allow messages between criminals and honest people to be
obtained.

I should stress that I am just repeating this argument, I don't believe in
it!

   Brian