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The Export Of Certain Networking Encryption Products Under ELAs As An Alternative To "Key Escrow/Recovery Products" Under KMI:A Networking Industry White Paper On Encryption Export Controls
White Papers These studies suggest that there may be market demand for products implementing key escrow/ recovery techniques for retrieval of encrypted stored data. However, no market demand exists for products implementing key escrow/recovery techniques for...
[April 28, 2004, 0:00]
UK Government Rejects Key-escrow Resurrection
News The Home Office has confirmed that it will not try to resurrect the key escrow debate in light of last week's terrorist attacks on America, but will continue with the enforcement of current encryption laws later this year.
[September 20, 2001, 12:55]
BSI Security Code Prompts Criticism About Key Escrow
News Stefan Magdalinski, of Stand.org, said: "The imposition of Public Key Escrow schemes is both damaging to civil liberties, and places severe burdens (financial, and technical) on the implementation of viable e-commerce sites.
[July 21, 1999, 14:39]
UK Government Rejects Key-escrow Resurrection
Talkback I am trying to get in touch with someone in goverment. I have been told by Prime Lottery company that I won. The catch to that is that they want me to send them $600 US dollars, to open an account with ocanic offshore trust bank before they will...
[August 10, 2005, 20:12]
UK Government Rejects Key-escrow Resurrection
Talkback If it's too good to be true, it probably isn't true: there are LOADS of these advance fee cons, and you should report it to your local police or the FBI as soon as possible. Don't be taken in by this!
[August 12, 2005, 9:41]
UK Government Rejects Key-escrow Resurrection
Talkback The best one is the free cruise that I keep winning. This comes both via E-Mail or recordered phone message. The scam behind that one, like all US con companies, it is for 1 person only, you have to purchase other holiday places for at least 1...
[August 12, 2005, 13:23]
Escrow Time Line Draws Fire From Think-tank
News The government's decision to drop key escrow -- which would give law enforcement agencies access to data sent over the Internet -- leaves the e-commerce bill "a dead limb of an old policy which should be chopped off," according to Caspar Bowden...
[March 8, 1999, 17:31]
A Year Ago: Escrow Time Line Draws Fire From Think-tank
News The government's decision to drop key escrow -- which would give law enforcement agencies access to data sent over the Internet -- leaves the e-commerce bill "a dead limb of an old policy which should be chopped off," according to Caspar Bowden...
[March 8, 2000, 6:02]
E-commerce Strategy Could Damage UK Economy - Report
News The House of Commons Trade and Industry Select Committee report, attacks the Department of Trade and Industry Bill on several fronts ranging from statutory licensing to key escrow and concludes that UK e-commerce has been "severely damaged" as a...
[May 19, 1999, 12:42]
Project Trawler: Cyber Crime In The UK
News NCIS originally bet on key escrow to ensure the police had the powers they needed to decrypt digital information in criminal investigations. Thwarted by opposition from civil liberties organisations the government was forced to drop key escrow from...
[June 22, 1999, 17:05]
Government's E-commerce Strategy Under Attack
News Key escrow -- which would have forced companies to store encryption keys with a third party -- was dropped after complaints from privacy groups and businesses who were worried it would hobble e-commerce in the UK.
[May 18, 1999, 11:38]
ZDNet UK News Interviews E-Minister Patricia Hewitt
News Hewitt has turned around the e-commerce bill, removing key escrow and police powers to force suspects to hand over encryption keys. The centrepiece of government policy, the old e-commerce bill, was being criticised for its heavy-handed insistence...
[February 18, 2000, 8:50]
Crypto Controls To Cost U.S. Citizens $7.7bn
News The FBI has proposed a system known in the industry as key escrow'. The total cost of the kind of key escrow encryption system envisioned by the U.S.government is $7.7 billion a year and $38.5 billion over five years," the Business Software...
[June 11, 1998, 14:23]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog The top level of government want key escrow, everyone else says 'nonsense' and there's a degree of sulking on both sides. Hence the nonsense over key escrow. But it does shed some light on the curious business of key escrow.
[February 19, 1999, 19:18]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
News The top level of government want key escrow, everyone else says 'nonsense' and there's a degree of sulking on both sides. Hence the nonsense over key escrow. But it does shed some light on the curious business of key escrow.
[February 19, 1999, 19:18]
Americans Support A Ban On 'uncrackable' Encryption
News Privacy groups are concerned that Britain's enthusiasm for a unilateral global approach towards surveillance could re-energise the key escrow debate. Key escrow is a controversial mechanism whereby individuals and businesses must lodge a decryption...
[September 18, 2001, 14:57]
Australia Won't Disclose Stance On Encryption
News What we might see though is mandatory key escrow, where users are required to lodge their decryption keys with a government agency, to be made accessible to law enforcement when a warrant is granted," Shiels said, bringing into the debate the fact...
[September 21, 2001, 10:32]
IT Think Tank Opens Doors To Supporters
News Anderson cited key escrow as an example -- the government's failed initiative to set up a national repository for keys to all data that is encrypted in the country. When the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 was passing through parliament...
[March 27, 2002, 11:54]
Government To Create 'snoop Unit'
News Key escrow -- in which decryption keys are lodged with a trusted third party to give law enforcers immediate access to data -- was dropped from the ecommerce bill industry and privacy pressure group following outrage.
[September 7, 1999, 10:49]
News Burst: Major Security Flaw In PGP
News The problem reportedly arose from the inclusion of a key escrow feature added to PGP by Network Associates. To decode an email encrypted by PGP users are required to employ the private key of the intended recipient.
[August 25, 2000, 12:07]
