What's really in PGP 5.5?

[Kent Crispin]

On Thu, Oct 09, 1997 at 11:36:54PM -0400, Ray Arachelian wrote:
> On Wed, 8 Oct 1997, Anonymous wrote:
> 
> > Second, what if an employee doesn't come back from vacation?  You've got
> > messages sitting in his inbox which go back three weeks.  All encrypted
> > to his personal key, which is gone.
> 
> Shut up Kent, yes, we know it is you posting this rant.  

Actually, no, it wasn't.

> The above fails
> due to one single little key word "his personal key." If it is his
> personal key, then the business has no business reading his email.

Perhaps he has no business having a personal key on a company machine. 
He's a fool if he does, anyway -- if the company wanted to snoop his
key they just go in after hours, install a keyboard sniffer, and grab
his passphrase...the bottom line is, Ray, that if it is on a corporate
machine, the corporation has access, whether the employee thinks so or
not. 

[...]

> This is a stupid arguement.  Go away.

Unwitting self reference is so delicious :-).

-- 
Kent Crispin				"No reason to get excited",
kent at songbird.com			the thief he kindly spoke...
PGP fingerprint:   B1 8B 72 ED 55 21 5E 44  61 F4 58 0F 72 10 65 55
http://songbird.com/kent/pgp_key.html