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smb@ulysses.att.com (Steven Bellovin) writes:

>Calm down.  You totally misread my posting.  That whole section of the
>article was written in the first person.  I said that *I* would go to
>the AT&T PEM office.  *I*, as an AT&T employee, would go.  You would go
>to the university PEM office, or -- if you wished -- generate your own
>key, get the application form notarized, and mail it to RSADSI yourself
>(with a check, of course).

>Incidentally, how are you going to use this key of yours?  On a
>university machine?  Do you trust the system administrators there not
>to bug the system?  Or to run things sufficiently securely that no one
>else can hack the mail system?  Please control your paranoia, or at
>least apply it uniformly....

I apologize.  I did misread your posting.

For university business I am sure I would have a university "owned" key,
if it was considered appropriate to encrypt (and once everyone is doing
it, it probably will be).

For personal matters, which often do as a consequence get fed through the
computers here, I would have my own key (and you could of course validate
which one I used).  Do I trust the system administrators here to not bug
the system?  If course not..... but since it is me, no problem :-)

There is always the idea of generating and encrypting the messages on a
PC and mailing it in from there, via any system from internet to fido.
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