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Crypto Archives: Re: Electronic envelopes

Re: Electronic envelopes

jeromepsti.com
Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:47:56 -0400

On Mon, Sep 27, 1999 at 04:46:18PM +0200, Mok-Kong Shen wrote:
>
> I suppose you are discussing Anonymous' post and not your own.

no, i discuss my idea, i dont know the 'oblivious key scrow'

> Now if any (sub)set of the unknown people could construct the key, they
> could simply post it just for fun and the scheme is sabotaged, isn't
> it?

it is assumed to be illegal to distribute the key before.
Doing a illegal act is assumed not to be fun by itself.

> I don't see in this case why any notary has to be contacted.

the key by itself is useless. To make a profit, the usual expectation
when doing a illegal act, it need to contact the notary owning the
document.

> I don't know literatures on the 'oblivious key escrow', so I don't
> exclude that I misunderstood something here.

me too. but it seems to be quite similar to my idea except it seems to have
it before me :)

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