Keyserver service outage

Tom Allard m1tca00 at FRB.GOV
Thu May 5 11:13:10 PDT 1994


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wcs at anchor.ho.att.com (bill.stewart at pleasantonca.ncr.com +1-510-484-6204) sez:

[...]

> There's an easy cure for this, though - if some non-North-American wants to
> write an RSAREF-compatible software package in C and distribute it as freeware,
> then it can be used in non-US versions of things that require RSAREF.

[...]

The cure is actually easier than that.  Just make ONE change in pgp 2.3a
so that it lies about what version it is.  pgp 2.3b could simply identify
itself as pgp 2.5 and no one would be able to tell the difference.

rgds-- TA  (tallard at frb.gov)
I don't speak for the Federal Reserve Board, they don't speak for me.
pgp fingerprint: 10 49 F5 24 F1 D9 A7 D6  DE 14 25 C8 C0 E2 57 9D
              

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