-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- From: Jeff Weinstein <jsw@netscape.com> Date: Tue, 3 Oct 1995 14:03:28 -0700 Subject: Re: Netscape finally issuing md5sums/pgp signed binaries ? (was Re: NetScape's dependence upon RSA down for the count!) . . . Yes, I get the idea about spewing the signed hashes everywhere. The problem I have is with the user of PGP. That will help cypherpunks, but does absolutely nothing for most of our millions of users, who have no idea what PGP is. Perhaps its enough to assume that if anyone is tampering with the distribution, some cypherpunk will stumble across it... I suspect that most of these millions don't know about md5 or much of anything in the way of strong authentication. However, if you provide any sure-fire mechanism by which someone could detect that the distribution has been tampered with, it would be an improvement over not having any. If someone does happen to notice tampering and send mail to cypherpunks about it, I'd guess that there's a good chance it would be reported in major publications shortly thereafter. You might want to indirect through BETSI . . . . -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBMHHUeZNR+/jb2ZlNAQHVCQP8CBb5c/0nX41awTf/kt+gGODu4qLcJVI8 rc604+rdr0YUFPVTStwXdUCg7gKgUTOC8werBPK5Dgyse/8u1jczU4Czub9Cd693 EfUW7o2oHN5/3x9E0Yn1rJD+ffwuGC+lf1EMBJMHsTwJzbPmy0FJPfyfyDlvWrDD OQDsJ5DbOHU= =s/t0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Rick Busdiecker Please do not send electronic junk mail! net: rfb@lehman.com or rfb@cmu.edu PGP Public Key: 0xDBD9994D www: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/rfb/http/home.html send mail, subject "send index" for mailbot info, "send pgp key" gets my key A `hacker' is one who writes code. Breaking into systems is `cracking'.