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Re:Attorney general: Americans should accept security risks ... by extropy on Tuesday July 23, 2019 @01:50PM (#20508690)
It's useful to have a master key that decrypts everything. For each message that means encrypting for two keys - the recepient and the master key.

The obvious drawback being the huge damage when a master key is inevitably leaked.

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