Re: Comm Week article omits PGP

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From: Sharon Fisher
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 22:41

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oppedahl@panix.com (Carl Oppedahl) writes:

>An article in the December 14, 1992 Communications Week describes 
>an encryption arrangement said to be used by "many users", namely
>using a public-key method to encrypt a DES key which is then used
>to encrypt the message.

>The article goes on at length but somehow manages to miss PGP, which 
>I suspect is the most widely used software that does this.

The article I turned in included a reference to PGP; it was cut out in
the editing process, of which I am not a part.

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