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by ISL 3009 days ago
Any encryption scheme with a backdoor is insecure, by definition.
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Not if you change the security definition.

Which they will. All they are asking for is some form of key escrow; which can (and has) been given a reasonable security definition.

The problem is that secure implementations of key escrow are much harder; and (given the amount of use the escrowed key will get), certainly going to be broken in practice.