re once they get your keys alt security clipper added to keep them informed of this issue david sternlight strnlght netcom com wrote the proposal could be modified so that if they get a court order to tap you and don t charge you with a crime within say days they have to buy you a new phone if they do charge you and you are found innocent they have to buy you a new phone yes but will they buy you a ticket on a time machine to allow you to go back and use the phone with the new key instead of the phone whose key they obtained it is unclear whether obtaining the key at time also unlocks messages recorded by whomever at earlier times the announcement was silent on this the betting seems to be that once your key has been obtained by the authorities by divorce lawyers by the mafia by the fbi by lost or stolen backup tapes by the nsa etc all previous conversations are unsecure session keys are negotiated but knowing the private key is believed by many commentators here to break the security no doubt more details will emerge so the loss of a key whether one is guilty or innocent may mean a lot more than merely replacing the phone sort of like saying to someone oh i copied your diary but i ll buy you a new one and the system if made mandatory as i expect will make such storing of conversations much easier i fear for one thing the transmission of the escrow key field acts as a clear signal to anyone listening a kind of caller id and callee id on a grand scale also the phone companies may not care as much about protecting the privacy of the calls as they perceive them all to be useless encrypted junk this is a bit of a reach i know suggesting that the clipper will make security more lax anyway still lots of issues unresolved tim may timothy c may crypto anarchy encryption digital money tcmay netcom com anonymous networks digital pseudonyms zero knowledge reputations information markets w a s t e aptos ca black markets collapse of governments higher power public key pgp and mailsafe available
