New PGP "Everything the FBI ever dreamed of"

[amp at pobox.com]

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  From: "Brian B. Riley" <brianbr at together.net>
  Subject: Re:New PGP "Everything the FBI ever dreamed of" 

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>  I would be almost as inclined to think that a company using PGP5.5
> with a forced encrypted to (company) self in addition to whomever else
> ... might even put up a bigger fuss about passing out their 'master
> key' to Freeh-dumb et al. than many CP individuals ...

An interesting question indeed. This is something that needs to be 
carefully considered by all concerned especially since, once the LEA has a 
copy of a private key, there is no way to stop them from using it to 
decrypt =any= document that was encrypted to it. This is very different 
from a wiretap, where the court allows the LEA to listen in to 
conversations over a specific period at a specific location. A closer 
analogy would be to require all telephone conversations to be recorded, and 
the wiretap would be used to listen to all these recorded conversations.

>  ... another passing thought, could the anticipated implementation of
> this have had anything to do with removal of the 'conventional
> encryption' options in PGP5 ????

Indeed. I just recieved a copy of pgpmail 4.5 that my boss purchased. I'm 
supposed to look this over and see how we can implement it. Upon briefly 
perusing the documentation, I'd say that I prefer this version to pgp 5x 
since it allows conventional cryptography, (with idea rather than DES!) and 
also makes it easy to encrypt to a group of people. This functionality is 
really what we need it for more than anything else.

=snip=

Kinda makes one go "Hmmmm..."

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Name: amp
E-mail: amp at pobox.com
Date: 10/07/97
Time: 00:51:00
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