On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 09:53:27PM -0400, Steven M. Bellovin wrote: > In an article on disk encryption > (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/04/26/pgp_infosec/), the following > paragraph appears: > > BitLocker has landed Redmond in some hot water over its insistence > that there are no back doors for law enforcement. As its > encryption code is open source, PGP says it can guarantee no back > doors, but that cyber sleuths can use its master keys if > neccessary. > > What is a "master key" in this context?
It sounds rather like a misunderstanding/mangling of PGP's Additional Decryption Key feature. David --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]