-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- At 12:06 PM 10/5/97 -0700, Tim May wrote:
Claiming that they are doing the work of Big Brother is a cheap-shot and uncalled for.
(Ironic coming from a frequent issuer of cheap shots.)
It is the work of Big Brother, as Garfinkel, Zimmermann, and I agree, when it becomes a default that additional recipients are automatically copied on encrypted mail. It may be useful to companies, but it's still dangerous.
Look a bit closer at the announcments: I believe they said that they would compile a new version for each key that they used. So it's not even likely that this could become a widespread feature. For this to be useful for GAK, you'd have to change all copies in existence to encrypt for this key. (And of course, then you'd have a very simple key- id to search for in the executable and modify, say to encrypt back to yourself, and you'd have circumvented this little problem) If you want PGP to get into widespread use in business, you have to provide features that they will require. Frankly, this is good for encryption, to provide features that business needs. With this, hopefully the business lobby will fall in line with the no-regulation-on-crypto lobby, and get all of us the results we want. Phil is never going to release a copy of PGP that has built-in GAK. We know that. This is MAK (Management Access...) in a secure manner, which is better than the other methods of internal escrow. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP for Personal Privacy 5.0 Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBNDf6czc3ytqHnNyNAQF80AP/Vm5uO8nLqnDShxu6/o9HArZNgvb8txoR JV3ANvTd7fHjpCMHEzSdUgyEYspX8uRP6D6qR2nAt3KgLwlVpNcLgQO6mUd4E9av naGgt7jHPcJ1tvFu8yr6mUFtXZ7yvROnOpkRXTv7HR4vaPvOS5Z8G60WZXhJRw3S FkFh7ADJiRk= =PafJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Ryan Anderson - <Pug Majere> "Who knows, even the horse might sing" Wayne State University - CULMA "May you live in interesting times.." randerso@ece.eng.wayne.edu PGP Fingerprint - 7E 8E C6 54 96 AC D9 57 E4 F8 AE 9C 10 7E 78 C9 -----------------------------------------------------------------------