FW: Network Associates rejoins Key Recovery Alliance

[Stewart, William C (Bill), BNSVC]

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-----Original Message-----
From: Kathleen Ellis [mailto:ellis at epic.org]
Sent: Thursday, November 12, 1998 12:25 PM
To: cryptography at c2.net
Subject: Network Associates rejoins Key Recovery Alliance


As seen on Slashdot..

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Posted by blizzard on
Thursday November
12, @09:41AM from the gimme-your-data dept.

Andrew Hagen writes
"Network Associates, formerly McAfee, developer of PGP, has quietly rejoined
the Key Recovery Alliance. Despite withdrawing from the group last December
amid pointed concerns over the continued trustworthiness of PGP, NAI
apparently rejoined the Key Recovery Alliance (KRA) three months later with
their February 1998 acquisition of Trusted Information Systems, a founding
member of the KRA. The KRA's major stated goal is creation of "a global
infrastructure that supports recovery of encrypted information." NAI has
sent me e-mail stating that they might or might not remain in the KRA, that
"PGP products will not be affected," and that they have "no interest in
enabling key escrow for government access." Network Associates is presently
listed on the KRA membership roster."

Kathleen Ellis Admin. Dir., Electronic Privacy Information Center
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