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In article <1992Dec18.021308.10817@ulysses.att.com>, smb@research.att.com (Steven Bellovin) writes:
> In article <1992Dec17.235959.1@nowhere.mil>, nobody@nowhere.mil writes:

         [Text deleted where David Sternlight expounds his belief that PGP
    is "tainted" and that to use it is unethical, regardless of local
    laws.]

>> 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...

         For that matter, look:

         Type bits/keyID   Date       User ID
         pub  1024/B33E65 1992/11/24  Jim Bidzos <jim@rsa.com>               

         So far as I know, no such public key exists. I just copied the
    sentences from Nobody's post, and twiddled them. 

         [DISCLAIMER: Again, I am not trying to make it look like Jim
    Bidzos uses PGP, or has a keypair in some PGP keyring. I am trying to
    point out that I can provide "proof" of somebody having a keypair even
    without generating such a keypair.]

> Btw -- the key might be genuine.  But an anonymous posting sure doesn't
> give me any reason to think so.

         Besides, the point is irrelevant. The key was supposedly generated
    nearly three months ago; plenty of time for a change of heart about the
    ethics of using this program. (Not that I agree with Mr. Sternlight's
    points, but I felt the original post was a low blow.)


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