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Another approach to software key escrow encryption

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Information Security and Privacy (ACISP 1996)

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Abstract

Key escrow cryptography has gained much attention in the last two years. A key escrow system can provide cryptographic protection to unclassified, sensitive data, while at the same time, allows for the decryption of encrypted messages when lawfully authorized.

In this paper we propose a protocol for supporting the implementation of key escrow systems in software. Our protocol is an improvement on two previous protocols proposed in [1].

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  1. Information Security Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology, Gardens Point, GPO Box 2434, 4001, Brisbane, QLD, Australia

    Ed Dawson & Jingmin He

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Josef Pieprzyk Jennifer Seberry

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Dawson, E., He, J. (1996). Another approach to software key escrow encryption. In: Pieprzyk, J., Seberry, J. (eds) Information Security and Privacy. ACISP 1996. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1172. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0023290

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