of the key (3 + 3*7). After the first month: 214 copies.

The government somehow thinks you'll clamor for THEM to backup your key
by giving them a copy of the key, and if you lose all of yours...
contact the Federal Secretary of Lost Keys.

And for this great benefit, they want you to give them Key Recovery
access to your cryptographic key.

We know what Key Recovery means...

By the way, the Government is restricting *communications* products, which
use public key cryptography. BY DEFINITION the SENDER will NEVER expect to
decrypt the traffic once they've encrypted it; that's the basis for public
key cryptography. That's how it works mathematically. By design.

So this "spare key" argument makes no sense whatsoever.

I shudder to think that most Americans will not understand these admittedly
technocratic basic details of computer systems and cryptography.

If they knew, they would be STUNNED that our leaders would lie so boldly to
us, including Mr. Kantor, to protect ECHELON.