[Cryptography] Plan to End the Crypto War

[John Levine]

>>> Looking at the whole process, why is a fragmented key is better than a single golden key?
>> 
>> I'd expect that, say, Apple would give a piece of the key to the
>> governments of each country where they sell iphones.  If they all
>> agree to read someone's messages, he must be really bad.
>
>This would either not be used or create a collusion attack that would make it useless.

Ah, irony is wasted on the young.  I assumed that suggestion was self-evidently
absurd.

>My personal conjecture is that split golden key is no better than single golden key because any
>human process where the split key works, that process can be implemented around a single golden
>key. 

Of course, and it adds new vulnerabilities in whatever process
combines the key pieces.

R's,
John