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Re: PGP as a World Standard

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From: Steven Bellovin
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 02:13
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In article <1992Dec17.235959.1@nowhere.mil>, nobody@nowhere.mil writes:
> David Sternlight (strnlght@netcom.com> says:
> >Read my lips. PGP1.0 was contraband in the U.S., so much so that the
> >author pulled out. It was illegally exported.  PGP2.0 was based on it.
> >Thus the Europeans who use it don't have clean hands, regardless of
> >the state of the law there.
> 
> Which is interesting, considering an entry on a PGP public key ring I
> received recently:
> 
> Type bits/keyID   Date       User ID
> pub  1024/B33E65 1992/09/24  David Sternlight <strnlght@netcom.com>
> 
> 
> I guess it's "do as I say, not as I do", eh, Dave?

Ah, I love anonymous postings.  Umm -- who signed that key?  There's
this about certificates (i.e., about the much-maligned PEM) -- there's
a trail of evidence and authentication.

Quick -- how many people know how to generate a key with an arbitrary
name?  I thought so...

Btw -- the key might be genuine.  But an anonymous posting sure doesn't
give me any reason to think so.
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From: smb@research.att.com (Steven Bellovin)
Subject: Re: PGP as a World Standard
Message-ID: <1992Dec18.021308.10817@ulysses.att.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 02:13:08 GMT
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