re is key escrow enough the points raised about checking what is actually in the chip as opposed to what is allegedly programmed therein raise yet another trust issue even if we assume that these trusted agents are really entering a wide range of s and s seeds rather than using the same one all the time to reduce the key search space to bits i assume they are not doing so by picking up an iron filing and poking it into the circuitry at carefully selected points to encode data they would presumably be punching numbers into a computer which for all they know could program the chips in a manner completely independent of the s and s values they are feeding into the system s and s are clearly the backdoor we should assume they are all compromised if they re not compromisable why the hell not use a hardware true random number source there isn t a random number source anywhere in this proposal the whole thing is deterministic from the day the serial number is stamped on the chip nope it can t be trusted this is all about two levels of access the possibly honest key escrow that police forces have to use and ostensibly the fbi and the back door that lets the nsa decode everything on the fly and maybe some back handers to the fbi when they want a warrantless tab in exchange for favours g
