Your post advocates a (x) technical ( ) legislative (x) market-based ( ) vigilante approach to backdooring cryptography. Your idea will not work. Here is why

Your post advocates a (x) technical ( ) legislative (x) market-based ( ) vigilante approach to backdooring cryptography. Your idea will not work. Here is why it won't work. (One or more of the following may apply to your particular idea, and it may have other flaws which used to vary from state to state before a bad federal law was passed.) ( ) You have to trust a government entity not to reveal the backdoor key (x) The backdoor key holders are susceptible to a good beating with a rubber hose (x) The backdoor key holders are susceptible to blackmail Specifically, your plan fails to account for (x) Clones that refuse to honor the backdoor (x) Jurisdictional problems (x) Lack of incentives for consumers to adopt a crippled product (x) Actual incentives for the terrorists not to adopt a backdoored product and the following philosophical objections may also apply: (x) Ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet none have ever been shown practical (x) Any scheme based on opt-in is unworkable ( ) Why should we have to trust you and your servers? (x) Incompatiblity with open source or open source licenses (x) I don't want the government reading my email Furthermore, this is what I think about you: (x) Sorry dude, but I don't think it would work. ( ) This is a stupid idea, and you're a stupid person for suggesting it. ( ) Nice try, assh0le! I'm going to find out where you live and burn your house down! With thanks to http://craphound.com/spamsolutions.txt http://craphound.com/spamsolutions.txt. Please feel free to help me improve this list. Similar to spam prevention, I think we'll see a lot of broken proposals to this problem over the next few years.