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Great idea. If the assumption is that only a handful of keys will be needed pet year, it is much less expensive to require the government to brute force a key solution than storing and securing all the keys.

Just choose a key strength that costs about $10,000,000 to brute force it, and keep increasing key strength as more efficient methods are found.



"Just choose a key strength that costs about $10,000,000 to brute force it, and keep increasing key strength as more efficient methods are found."

Wasn't that the approach in the early days of computer crypto? Where keys bigger than X were verboten?




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