Cryptology ePrint Archive: Report 1996/015

Verifiable Partial Key Escrow

Mihir Bellare and Shafi Goldwasser

Abstract: One of the main objections to existing proposals for key escrow is that the individual's privacy relies on too high a level of trust in the law enforcement agencies. In particular, even if the government is trustworthy today, it may be replaced by an un-trustworthy government tomorrow which could immediately and suddenly recover the secret keys of all users.

Category / Keywords: Key escrow, Public-key cryptosystems, Diffie-Hellman, RSA,

Publication Info: Appeared in the THEORY OF CRYPTOGRAPHY LIBRARY and has been included in the ePrint Archive.

Date: received December 6, 1996.

Contact author: mihir at cs ucsd edu

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Short URL: ia.cr/1996/015

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