[Cryptography] Snowden "fabricated digital keys" to get access to NSA servers?

[Richard Salz]

> How could it be arranged that "if anything happens at all to Edward
> Snowden, he told me he has arranged for them to get access to the full
> archives"?

A lawyer or other (paid) confidant was given instructions that would
disclose the key.  "Do this if something happens to me."

It doesn't have to be an on-line mechanism.