-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The recent spate of bogus keys uploaded to the PGP keyserver (with subsequent posts forged using our employees names showing up on mailing lists and newsgroups) is particularly troubling given the fact that they appear to be coming from within the ranks of the cypherpunks. While I still support the aims of the cypherpunks list, I must confess to being somewhat disillusioned by these attacks by long time members of the cypherpunks list. Even more troubling is the fact that there is evidence of the attacks being designed to aide one of PGP, Inc.'s competitors--Stronghold. I suppose I should have realized long ago that Gilmore <spit> and Sameer <fart> were in collusion to turn the cypherpunks against PGP in order to corner the encryption market for c2net's back-door, GAK'ed product. Although PGP's successful effort to get the Huge Cajones anonymous remailer shut down has helped to minimize the damage to our reputation, we may have to take action against other remailers, as well. I wish I had listened to the warnings of the late Dale Thorn, Toto, and Dimitri Vulis before it had come to this. In conclusion, I would ask everyone to be wary when receiving messages purporting to be from PGP, Inc. or from any of our employees. It is inevitable that some gullible fools will be taken in by the forgeries, but simple precautions such as checking the key signatures against the keys on our keyserver and perusing the message headers to determine the source of the email should aide in spotting forgeries. (You should be particularly wary of any messages originating from Canadian ISP's, as that seems to be the natural habitat of Mongers of every sort.) Philip R. Zimmerman <prz@pgp.com> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP for Personal Privacy 5.0 Charset: noconv iQA/AwUBM7s2017MfpC8gEO7EQI7pACg0285HGGqLevqRTFZnzpB59PS8yoAn1Wp 0b7D8YcrmSn9VbjmAq55nKWx =fRuw -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----