-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- no, no, no --we dont try to make GAK 'better' --we dont do it at all. fuck them and the dirty horses they road in on. _THEY_, not us, are the four horsemen of the apocolypse. to the despots in Washington, whose fat heads have never seen the sunshine, there is only one "gift" --no code. let them find the dirty handed clods to do their own filthy work --if no decent programmers are willing to bloody their hands they will butcher the program more than they would otherwise, and it will be those miserable bastards who will be begging _us_ for mercy. if you believe in any freedom -dont be a fucking quisling. -- "Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other." --Benjamin Franklin ______________________________________________________________________ "attila" 1024/C20B6905/23 D0 FA 7F 6A 8F 60 66 BC AF AE 56 98 C0 D7 B0 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3i Charset: latin1 Comment: No safety this side of the grave. Never was; never will be iQCVAwUBNBszq704kQrCC2kFAQHSAAQAiKdHqcjF3vt0JP6y3j2NTSBhlaE1kWsS nLiwBZuM0Wigr6Wo80k0+7IO+FJw1ZqCI7Aij0s3vZd/W0WnkTXg2BPJSM7R8G74 3HTVph4Y+tPjOvDy+ckgsjJMIld9VfCBz8KHUeZ7sbfRY1U8BrUxA95Fl2PrZSgd hcoFiMBKaDE= =QYWN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- on or about 970912:1933 "Brian B. Riley" <brianbr@together.net> expostulated: +-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- +Hash: SHA1 +On 9/12/97 1:31 AM, Anonymous (nobody@REPLAY.COM) passed this wisdom: + [snip] +>Now think about this: You're Joe Random Govt. Worker at the +>official secret key repository, and there's a budget crisis going +>on - instead of paychecks, you're getting I.O.U.'s. Your terminal +>has access to thousands, perhaps millions, of secret keys. You grab +>one of CitiBank's, forge a few transactions, and 30 seconds later +>your Swiss bank account is a few million dollars fatter and +>according to the digital signature, the transaction originated in +>L.A.. + Please correct me if I am wrong, but could not a GAK backdoor be +written that will simply permit decryption only of the ciphertext and +not encryption. Would not this prevent this from happening? + Don'tget me wrong. It scares the hell out of me too, but maybe, in +addition to that various things Tim has suggested we might also +consider how to make the GAK as secure as cam be to minimize its +potential for disaster. +-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- +Version: PGP for Personal Privacy 5.0 +Charset: noconv +iQA/AwUBNBnRQcdZgC62U/gIEQK+qACfSPjDLBIKmN4AgvEU6nBPmKKF+94AnR6T +4ZV9vbLb7vCpaaKGZA1mPTmH +=MbPr +-----END PGP SIGNATURE----- +Brian B. Riley --> http://www.macconnect.com/~brianbr + For PGP Keys - Send Email Subject "Get PGP Key" + "The only thing necessary for evil to triumph, is for good men to + stand by and do nothing" Edmund Burke