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Article #2359Re: PGP as a World Standard
From: Steven Bellovin
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 02:13
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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Newsgroups: sci.crypt,alt.security.pgp Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!linac!att!att!ulysses!ulysses!smb 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 References: <1992Dec17.235959.1@nowhere.mil> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 25