In an article on disk encryption (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/04/26/pgp_infosec/), the following paragraph appears:
BitLocker has landed Redmond in some hot water over its insistence that there are no back doors for law enforcement. As its encryption code is open source, PGP says it can guarantee no back doors, but that cyber sleuths can use its master keys if neccessary. What is a "master key" in this context? --Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]