competing standard perhaps one way of getting away from this cripple chip that the u s government seems to be pushing would be to come up with a good alternative for example how about a scheme using rsa and some hybrid of des cfb and another strong stream cipher maybe idea cfb this could be substantially the same as the cripple chip except that instead of key registration the police could demand that you give up your secret key to them with a court issued warrant then they could read the last few months of wiretapped messages you ve sent and assuming you ve committed no crimes you could generate a new key pair and go about your business i find that i d be willing to pay rsa for the right to use such a system especially given the alternative if you were unwilling to give up your secret key then you d probably stay in jail has anyone got a real legal precedent for this this would allow court issued warrants to be used to gather information on suspected criminals but it couldn t be done in secrecy and there would be enormously less likelihood of corruption or theft of escrowed keys maybe someone from the law enforcement or intelligent community will correct me but this doesn t seem like such a big loss in terms of law enforcement capabilities any comments john kelsey
