This is what I was able to find out about the Verisign/NAI partnership. -- Max Inux (MaxInux@bigfoot.com) UIN: 207447, http://khercs.chipware.net Strong Cryptography makes the world a safer place- PGP: 0x5CCFCA59 Or Kinky sex makes the world go round- Christie: Your in my sig too ^^ If Cryptography is outlawed, only outlaws will have cryptography ^^ ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 23 Jun 1998 10:22:26 -0700 From: Jon Callas <jon@pgp.com> To: Max Inux <maxinux@bigfoot.com>, Sean_Paswater@nai.com Cc: chip@chipware.net, jon@pgp.com Subject: Re: Verisign & NAI Join Forces, PGP out the door? (fwd) At 08:10 PM 6/22/98 -0700, Max Inux wrote: Chip and Jon: Chip: Have any insight into this or is this gonna be like the TIS scare w/ Key Escrow? Jon: Since Chip will probably end up asking you or some of the other higher ups if he is unsure, Is there any truth to this story, or is this TIS #2? The tale is true -- it's the *interpretation* that's bogus. PGP is not out the door. PGP will be doing X.509 too. There's not a lot of difference between an X.509 certificate and a PGP key signature. They do the same thing. What you'll be able to do is have Verisign sign your key. The first steps of this are coming this fall -- you'll be able to drop an X.509 cert into your keyring and it will magically transform itself into a PGP key. At first, you'll only be able to use it with TLS (a.k.a. SSL), which is also coming this fall. Jon ----- Jon Callas jon@pgp.com CTO, Total Network Security 3965 Freedom Circle Network Associates, Inc. Santa Clara, CA 95054 (408) 346-5860 Fingerprints: D1EC 3C51 FCB1 67F8 4345 4A04 7DF9 C2E6 F129 27A9 (DSS) 665B 797F 37D1 C240 53AC 6D87 3A60 4628 (RSA)