Quoting "Steven M. Bellovin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
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?
ADK, the Additional Decryption Key. An enterprise with a Managed
PGP Desktop installed base can set up an ADK and all messages get
encrypted to the ADK in addition to the recipient's key.
--Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
-derek
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Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB)
URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/ PP-ASEL-IA N1NWH
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