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1995-02-10 - Re: why pgp sucks

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From: Greg Morgan <mac5tgm@hibbs.vcu.edu>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
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UTC Datetime: 1995-02-10 20:48:05 UTC
Raw Date: Fri, 10 Feb 95 12:48:05 PST

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From: Greg Morgan <mac5tgm@hibbs.vcu.edu>
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 95 12:48:05 PST
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: why pgp sucks
In-Reply-To: <9502101958.AA15039@snark.imsi.com>
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Perry E. Metzger originally said the following...
> 
> 
> I'll also note, yet again, that unless PGP quits this bad practice of
> identifying counterparties only by a number, it is NOT going to be
> universally deployed. Counterparties need to be identified by a name
> that can be looked up in the DNS -- meaning "joe@foo.com" rather than
> some key ident number.

Doesn't having some kind of central record of keys go against
the principle of PGP?  Unless you're just talking about having
a name attached to each key, but not exactly a DNS for key
id's...  I'll admit I'm a little confused.

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