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Article #262Re: Comm Week article omits PGP
From: Sharon Fisher
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 04:12
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 04:12
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Sharon Fisher <slf@netcom.com> writes: >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. Shoulda checked before I typed. PGP was indeed cut for length, but I did it myself.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!think.com!spool.mu.edu!agate!netsys!ukma!computer-privacy-request Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 04:12:49 GMT From: Sharon Fisher <slf@netcom.com> Newsgroups: comp.society.privacy Subject: Re: Comm Week article omits PGP Message-ID: <comp-privacy1.118.5@pica.army.mil> Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest) Sender: comp-privacy@pica.army.mil Approved: comp-privacy@pica.army.mil X-Submissions-To: comp-privacy@pica.army.mil X-Administrivia-To: comp-privacy-request@pica.army.mil X-Computer-Privacy-Digest: Volume 1, Issue 118, Message 5 of 9 Lines: 19