[Cryptography] Plan to End the Crypto War

[james hughes]

> On Jan 7, 2016, at 10:24 AM, Christian Huitema <huitema at huitema.net> wrote:
> From the summary description of the proposal, it appears to use a "fragmented golden key." The classic golden key approach is to provide to authorities a copy of someone's private key, encrypted with the golden key.

Imagine giving the pieces to the members of the FISA Court? A set of N like-minded judges of a court without diversity? 
		•  http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/26/us/politics/robertss-picks-reshaping-secret-surveillance-court.html 
Or worse, N organizations that must return their piece when presented with a FISA warrant signed by a single judge (from the like minded pool). 

Looking at the whole process, why is a fragmented key is better than a single golden key?


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