Paper 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.

Metadata
Available format(s)
PS
Publication info
Published elsewhere. Appeared in the THEORY OF CRYPTOGRAPHY LIBRARY and has been included in the ePrint Archive.
Keywords
Key escrowPublic-key cryptosystemsDiffie-HellmanRSA
Contact author(s)
mihir @ cs ucsd edu
History
1996-12-06: received
Short URL
https://ia.cr/1996/015
License
Creative Commons Attribution
CC BY

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:1996/015,
      author = {Mihir Bellare and Shafi Goldwasser},
      title = {Verifiable Partial Key Escrow},
      howpublished = {Cryptology ePrint Archive, Paper 1996/015},
      year = {1996},
      note = {\url{https://eprint.iacr.org/1996/015}},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/1996/015}
}
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