Crypto CD UpDate
Bill Frantz
frantz at netcom.com
Sat Mar 30 12:07:36 PST 1996
At 8:36 PM 3/28/96 +0100, JR at ns.cnb.uam.es wrote:
> I may -or not- trust the people at unimi, but would I also trust
>a lot of intermediate people putting up together a CD-ROM? For that sake,
>and considering the costs of storage and removable storage media, I'd
>bet many people would find more useful to download their copies from
>the net (even once a year only) as I did.
If pieces of the source/executable are digitally signed, you have a basis
for some degree of trust. (My pgp came with a detached signature. A bit
self-referental, but at least a start.)
Regards - Bill
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