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Re: [Mathmesh] A different approach to key escrow

Michael Richardson <mcr+ietf@sandelman.ca> Sun, 08 September 2019 11:45 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Mathmesh] A different approach to key escrow
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I understand now. The master escrow key can be used to escrow both asymmetric
private keys, but also to escrow session-level keys used for specific
purposes (such as the disk encryption example)

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