Me too. >: ) But keep in mind the paper linked above (the 1997 one, in regards to the clipper chip) is a flipping who’s who of the greatest minds in cryptography (did you see me freak the shit out here when I shook Whitfield Diffies hand the other week? Yeah, he was one of the authors), and they unanimously oppose escrowed keys.
Yes, that is an Argument to Authority. But cryptography is one of the few areas where that logical fallacy is treated as, “yeah, well, that’s probably right”.
I should go lurk at the crypto section of stack, there’s more I don’t know than I do.
