Re: Non-Mathmatical Forging of PKI Digital Certificates / Throwing Rocks at the PKI

[Pluto <pluto () DEFCOM-SEC COM>]

On Sat, 26 Aug 2000, Lincoln Yeoh wrote:

> I disagree that some form of escrow is a bad idea in a corporate environment.
>
> For example the key itself or a master key could be split (Blakely Shamir
> style) and then encrypted and escrowed with multiple entities - e.g. board
> members, company safe.

  Why have a duplicate in the vault if you are using treshold keys?

> Whether corporations should exist as entities on their own is a different
> matter :).

  "All revolutions are local" won my personal award of funniest shirt on
defcon :)

  Gruss

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