What's really in PGP 5.5?

Kent Crispin kent at bywater.songbird.com
Mon Oct 13 02:30:48 PDT 1997



On Fri, Oct 10, 1997 at 11:40:46AM +0100, Adam Back wrote:
> 
[...]
> 
> If the company has an approval system for official statements (seems
> reasonable, if it's a press release, important contractual decision,
> etc), then Alice can send a copy to the legal beagles for the ok, and
> they can send it on.

Isn't it the whole presumption that what Alice is sending is important
company information? That is, that Alice *is* a 'legal beagle' or some
such?  Casual or semi-private email may or may not be allowed, 
depending on how paranoid or repressive the company, but that isn't 
the issue, as I see it.  The issue is 'important company email'.

[...]

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