---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:41:06 -0400 (EDT) From: Michael Warfield <mhw@iss.net> To: gryzor@thepentagon.com Cc: ntsecurity@iss.net Subject: Re: [NTSEC] pgp 5.0 back door ???

hello,

I have a little question Pgp 5.0 freeware have an global back door key of the us gouvernment or not ??

Not. Phil Zimmerman is an absolute religous fanatic about backdoors! When ViaCrypt implimented a commercial escrow feature to give companies the ability to issues keys where they had a key escrow, he used that as a reason to break their contract. He had a "no backdoor" clause in the ViaCrypt agreement for PGP. After the US goverment tried to investigate Phil into bankruptcy for several years, I seriously doubt he would do ANYTHING to assist them except to assist them into a pit somewhere...

thxs 4 advance

Gryzor

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