Garth Wallace wrote:

> The government could just require that CAs give them a copy
> of all public keys.


I think you meant "The government could just require that CAs give them 
a copy of all private keys." (The public keys are already public, as 
part of the certificates themselves.) This is somewhat off-topic for 
this group, so I'll confine myself to noting that not all encryption 
schemes use Certificate Authorities in the X.509 sense, PGP/GPG being 
the most well-known example of a system not based on X.509-style CAs.

Frank
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