re re inventing crypto policy an eff statement in article apr eff org danny weitzner djw eff org writes the bit key will be divided between two escrow agents each of whom hold bits of each key presumably the key split is so that no one group controls the privacy of the key and that it would be infeasible to illicitly gain access from both agents however if one agent wishes to break the crypto without the cooperation of the other agent a bit key is not going to stand in the way of a brute force attack if an agency for example the nsa were to hold one of the two key halves then i don t imagine they really need the other half of the key to start listening in or was that the point grin this is not to imply at all that i like the idea of the rest of the system lee brintle and so i leave you with this final word director project panda twang
