March 12, 2002
Practical Aspects of Modern Cryptography
54
Key Escrow
nThere are no legitimate cases (at least from a commercial perspective) for archival of secret session keys.
nIf the data didn’t get transmitted correctly during the session, send it again
nGovernments care about session encryption key recovery
nWant to preserve their wiretapping capabilities
nGovernment spent a lot of time trying to convince businesses that the needs of stored data recovery & session key recovery were the same