suggestions for escrow agencies was re more technical details below is my response to dr denning s letter to steven bellovin comments are invited paul in alt privacy clipper steve bellovin posted your message to him which included a brief passage concerning selection of agencies as escrow agencies i am glad to see that the proposal as written states that the escrow agencies won t be law enforcement agencies i would argue however that one of the escrow agencies shouldn t be federal at all as a private citizen i would feel much more secure in my person and papers knowing that an organization committed to individual civil liberties the aclu and the nra come to mind was safeguarding half of my key both the aclu and the nra are resistent to government pressure by the simple expedient fact that they are not supported funded or overtly controlled by the government of those federal and federally funded candidate agencies that you mentioned i have the following comments sri rand mitre and national labs i agree that they have great experience safeguarding sensitive information i am not convinced that they would adequately safeguard this information since in any case requiring disclosure there s likely to be sigificant pressure for disclosure possibly wrongful disclosure gao perhaps i would like to see more concrete evidence of their fidelity and ability treasury surely you re joking perhaps you d ask batf to safeguard keys maybe the federal reserve would be a better choice ever since last fall s trial balloon was posted in sci crypt your name has been synonymous with those who place a great deal of trust in the ability of government agencies and agents to act within the law i agree with you in part those agencies and agents almost always act properly however there have been enough cases where sworn agents of the federal government have acted wrongly to make me feel that having two federal agencies as key repositories is unacceptable respectfully paul robichaux not speaking for nti bcss or nasa paul robichaux kd jzg help stop the big brother chip nti mission software development div ripem key on request
