1997-07-03 - Re: PGP security problems?

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From: ? the Platypus {aka David Formosa} <dformosa@st.nepean.uws.edu.au>
To: “Robert A. Costner” <pooh@efga.org>
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UTC Datetime: 1997-07-03 08:58:37 UTC
Raw Date: Thu, 3 Jul 1997 16:58:37 +0800

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From: ? the Platypus {aka David Formosa} <dformosa@st.nepean.uws.edu.au>
Date: Thu, 3 Jul 1997 16:58:37 +0800
To: "Robert A. Costner" <pooh@efga.org>
Subject: Re: PGP security problems?
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On Thu, 3 Jul 1997, Robert A. Costner wrote:

[...]

> I hate to see people doing such things with keyservers and keys, but we all
> knew the problem existed.  I wonder where the solution is.

Well it all depeands on what you wish to do.  A simple mail back
authentacation schem would raise the barror to router and host spoofing.
Haveing ISP's sign there users public keys would also help.

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