March 12, 2002
Practical Aspects of Modern Cryptography
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Key Escrow
nThe general topic of “key escrow” is about archiving copies of private keys with third parties.
nThis is also sometimes called “key archival”
nWhen the government is the archive, this is
GAK (Government Access to Keys)
nThere are legitimate cases where you might need a key escrow scheme
nStored data recovery in case of accident/loss/termination of employment