From: pmetzger@shearson.com (Perry E. Metzger)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
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UTC Datetime: 1992-11-29 18:38:53 UTC
Raw Date: Sun, 29 Nov 92 10:38:53 PST
From: pmetzger@shearson.com (Perry E. Metzger)
Date: Sun, 29 Nov 92 10:38:53 PST
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: comments on Don's "Cypher Bank"
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>>If only the hash value is mailed, then the full key can be e-mailed
>>or anonymously posted to a newsgroup that you montitor. If the full key
>>is mailed, you should invest in a scanner and some simple OCR software.
>I have been thinking about this. I think that pgp should have a postscript
>output module, so you can print your public key on the back of business
>cards and hand them out to people you meet.
Is anything preventing you from building seperate tools to do this?
PGP will happily put out your key into a file, from whence you can do
anything you like. Why add bloody postscript generation capability to
an encryption program, fercrissake.
Perry
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