Key escrowing today

Author

Denning, Dorothy E. ; Smid, Miles

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Georgetown Univ., Washington, DC, USA

Volume

32

Issue

9

fYear

1994

Firstpage

58

Lastpage

68

Abstract

The objective of the US Government´s Escrowed Encryption Standard (EES) and associated Key Escrow System (KES) is to provide strong security for communications while simultaneously allowing authorized government access to particular communications for law enforcement and national security purposes. The article describes the EES and the KES. Particular emphasis is given to security, since potential users have been concerned that the hooks which provide authorized government access could be exploited or abused. It describes many of the safeguards that have gone into the design of the KES in order to ensure that the risk of unauthorized access to EES-encrypted communications is negligible.<>

Keywords

cryptography; telecommunication standards; telecommunication systems; Escrowed Encryption Standard; Key Escrow System; US Government; authorized government access; communications security; encrypted communications; law enforcement; national security; safeguards; Communication standards; Communication system security; Cryptography; Drugs; Government; Law enforcement; NIST; National security; Protection; Technology management;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Communications Magazine, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0163-6804

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/35.312844

Filename

312844