-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- In <v03102805b04065bf320b@[207.167.93.63]>, on 09/13/97 at 08:56 AM, Tim May <tcmay@got.net> said:
This will make the public key infrastructure essentially useless, as the public key servers go down, as corporations yank any directories they may have, and (possibly) as individuals stop putting PGP or S/MIME fingerprints or pointers in their messages.
Oh it would effectivly kill PGP but expect S/MIME to florish. My last reading of the S/MIME specs had direct reference to supporting GAK. If this legislation becomes law you will see very shortly N$, IBM, HP, M$ all with shinny new logos on thier products announcing that they are using government approved crypto. None of these companies are run by cypherpunks, they are run by "suits" who would sell out their own country and it's citizens if they could turn a profit doing so. - -- - --------------------------------------------------------------- William H. Geiger III http://www.amaranth.com/~whgiii Geiger Consulting Cooking With Warp 4.0 Author of E-Secure - PGP Front End for MR/2 Ice PGP & MR/2 the only way for secure e-mail. OS/2 PGP 2.6.3a at: http://www.amaranth.com/~whgiii/pgpmr2.html - --------------------------------------------------------------- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3a Charset: cp850 Comment: Registered_User_E-Secure_v1.1b1_ES000000 iQCVAwUBNBts7Y9Co1n+aLhhAQEq5gQAxACW/0N+B98+F5db7F8B/aZGlves9lls zi76zpnXiiq6POuYM4WeeX4xOfrpkGNC+WhetHkyzuEyweV9YM3+3EfiswN+j/CV RCRQXVWsDEQR7fzzMz6g7NZjCWEx2ZTv/brW+fEfDYU4nHU/e42dJrqHDHPTFmxF WMF6hVlONjo= =ZxRC -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----