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Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> Tue, 26 November 2013 02:40 UTC

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> seems to me that if the amazingly elaborate ceremonies around the root
> key do not include m of n needed to open the bottle, with the m and n
> distributed among multiple national juristictions, it is merely
> security theater.

from private email, i clearly was being too subtle.

hint: the inverse is also true

randy

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