key escrow

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key escrow - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  key escrow
  
     <security> A controversial arrangement where the keys needed
     to decrypt encrypted data must be held in escrow by a third
     party so that government agencies can obtain them to decrypt
     messages which they suspect to be relevant to national
     security.
  
     (1999-12-14)