Abstract
According to documents provided to the Computer Fraud and Security Bulletin, the secretive US “Deputies Committee for Encryption Policy” discussed ways of leveraging the use of key recovery schemes within the United States. According to an undated draft memo issued in late December 1996, the Deputies — a group of second tier officials from the NSA, CIA, FBI, Justice Department, and Pentagon — recognized the problems associated with the FBI's demand for mandatory domestic use of key recovery. Instead, they crafted a plan that would allow “anyone in the US [to be] free to use the encryption of his choice, and participating in the Key Management Infrastructure (KMI) [including the use of licensed certificate authorities] would also be voluntary”.
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