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From: "Brian B. Riley"
I would be almost as inclined to think that a company using PGP5.5 with a forced encrypted to (company) self in addition to whomever else ... might even put up a bigger fuss about passing out their 'master key' to Freeh-dumb et al. than many CP individuals ...
An interesting question indeed. This is something that needs to be carefully considered by all concerned especially since, once the LEA has a copy of a private key, there is no way to stop them from using it to decrypt =any= document that was encrypted to it. This is very different from a wiretap, where the court allows the LEA to listen in to conversations over a specific period at a specific location. A closer analogy would be to require all telephone conversations to be recorded, and the wiretap would be used to listen to all these recorded conversations.
... another passing thought, could the anticipated implementation of this have had anything to do with removal of the 'conventional encryption' options in PGP5 ????
Indeed. I just recieved a copy of pgpmail 4.5 that my boss purchased. I'm
supposed to look this over and see how we can implement it. Upon briefly
perusing the documentation, I'd say that I prefer this version to pgp 5x
since it allows conventional cryptography, (with idea rather than DES!) and
also makes it easy to encrypt to a group of people. This functionality is
really what we need it for more than anything else.
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Kinda makes one go "Hmmmm..."
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Name: amp
E-mail: amp@pobox.com
Date: 10/07/97
Time: 00:51:00
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