The Risks of Key Recovery, Key Escrow, and Trusted Third-Party Encryption (1997)

And an update from (mostly) the same authors for 2017: https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/97690

> Building the secure computer-communication infrastructures necessary to provide adequate technological underpinnings demanded by these requirements would be enormously complex and is far beyond the experience and current competency of the field. Even if such infrastructures could be built, the risks and costs of such an operating environment may ultimately prove unacceptable. In addition, these infrastructures would generally require extraordinary levels of human trustworthiness.

Trustless systems? Without the risk of SSL X.509 PKI CA cert compromise?

Do the Bitcoin and Ethereum concepts and implementations of 'Gas', multisignatures, contracts, distributed storage and computing, and cryptographic primitives also solve for part of these problems?

This is an awesome article, but the title should be updated to indicate the year it was published — 1997.