Schneier's blog explains his stance on this in great detail consistently over many years. Key escrow is a back door. Schneier has generally moved focus from d

Schneier's blog explains his stance on this in great detail consistently over many years. Key escrow is a back door. Schneier has generally moved focus from designing and breaking cryptography (although he was a key contributor to the Skein SHA3 candidate) to the bigger aspects of risk. And trusting the government or any third party is risk. You'll like his blog.