PGP is Product of the Week
PGP is Product of the Week in last weeks PCMag. I will bang my drum one more time... How to beat the three letter agencies: 1. Power of the press is just one of the weapons at our disposal. Public education and continued press on privacy alternatives is important. One of the things that would help a concerted offensive against the three letter agencies that want to remove our privacy would be to send more articles to the industry rags. Hopefully better than the one published in Byte. The more exposure the better. You there! Start writing! 2. Improve the ease-of-use factor for PGP... That is, write more front ends (windowing since most of the general public uses it). Example: ViaCryptPGP for Compuserve's WINCIM and navigator. I believe in the critical mass theory... "A product becomes a defacto standard not that it is always the best product but because of sheer number of users". In this case I am pushing PGP but I think it would go for crypto products in general. 3. Drive for an independent "renegade" standard like PGP. The term renegade here meaning "having rejected tradition". Flood the net with it and the genie is truly out of the bottle. Now that PGP is "legal" in the US, and people outside the U.S. have the product spec no-one gets left out in the cold. 4. Mentioned earlier... "Attack the NSA budget". This can be a win and a loose since a smaller budget could lower our countries defenses. It is possible that an attack on the budget would get them to lay off without any real action needing to be taken. ... __o .. -\<, chris.claborne@sandiegoca.ncr.com ...(*)/(*). CI$: 76340.2422 PGP Pub Key fingerprint = A8 FA 55 92 23 20 72 69 52 AB 64 CC C7 D9 4F CA Avail on Pub Key server.
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Now that PGP is "legal" in the US, and people outside the U.S. have the product spec no-one gets left out in the cold.
It's interesting that you put it exactly like that. It happens that I have been grappling, so far unsuccessfully, with the fact that there is a group of people who _are_ ``left out in the cold''. I would value your comments on this. A person in the group to which I refer is ``in the US'' by the commonly understood geographical definition of that phrase, but has as a matter of conscience renounced any citizenship he may have had. He refuses on principle to affirm that he is a national person, and therefore cannot use PGP 2.6 because such affirmation is supposed to be required in order to obtain PGP 2.6, and may therefore be implicit in each use of PGP 2.6. On the other hand, if he uses PGP 2.6ui, he risks being accused of violating RSADSI's patent rights, because they will take him to be ``in the US'', even though he has disaffiliated himself. What version of PGP can such a person use? John E. Kreznar | Relations among people to be by jkreznar@ininx.com | mutual consent, or not at all. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.3a iQCVAgUBLgotOcDhz44ugybJAQFK5QQAr9nSs15ffo49jXFarfi8kSIQXPH16+1V hGgMre0LktEG4M2hVO8K2VmoFiy982yM9W8jQmH2e6twrTGqiOmEKEyNcOFKwsWA Ew45bEWcBcZpE/Ql+LBHk0PJNHoMGo/ORf4iec5ySYVo89XDahm+a6NMcGbBchHA /3IdqOddt/c= =8ITr -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
John E. Kreznar: | A person in the group to which I refer is ``in the US'' by the commonly | understood geographical definition of that phrase, but has as a matter | of conscience renounced any citizenship he may have had. He refuses on | principle to affirm that he is a national person, and therefore cannot | use PGP 2.6 because such affirmation is supposed to be required in order | to obtain PGP 2.6, and may therefore be implicit in each use of PGP 2.6. [...] | What version of PGP can such a person use? 2.4/2.7, from ViaCrypt. They are licensed, without requiring the buyer to assert that they are a US citizzen, and part of the money you pay out is for the RSA license. Viacrypt: 602 944 0773 Adam -- Adam Shostack adam@bwh.harvard.edu Politics. From the greek "poly," meaning many, and ticks, a small, annoying bloodsucker.
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