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Re: Will the real PFS please stand up?
> Date: Thu, 29 Aug 1996 07:02:25 -0400
> To: Bill Sommerfeld <sommerfeld@apollo.hp.com>,
> Does this mean that an escrowing of J can yield j? And thus escrowing is
> effective against SKIP PFS? If so, this is unexceptable. PFS must be
> immune to key escrowing.
No, escrowing of the long-term SKIP keys does not permit
wire-tapping exchanges protected by SKIP PFS. I assume
that this was your question?
(I am a little lost by your use of J and j, since J in
SKIP is identity, not a key, and therefore would not be
the information that would be escrowed).
>
> For those that are looking for NSA boogiemen everywhere, look carefully at
> this :)
Last time I checked, I didn't work for the NSA ;-)
Ashar.