Verifiable Partial Key Escrow

Mihir Bellare; Shafi Goldwasser

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 escrow Public-key cryptosystems Diffie-Hellman RSA
Contact author(s): mihir @ cs ucsd edu
History: 1996-12-06: received
Short URL: https://ia.cr/1996/015
License: 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},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/1996/015}
}