From: adwestro@ouray.Denver.Colorado.EDU (Alan Westrope)
Date: Thu, 1 Dec 94 19:13:56 PST
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: AUTOPGP
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> Anyone know where I can get a copy of AUTOPGP? I'd like to try it out
> and see whether it has any advantages over YARN's integrated PGP functions.

> Mark Terka     | werewolf@io.org

It's at oak.oakland.edu (and, presumably, all mirror sites) as:

pub/msdos/offline/apgp212.zip

I use both Yarn and AutoPGP; each has different strengths.  I find that
for Internet use Yarn meets almost all my needs, but AutoPGP comes in
very handy for occasional use, mainly with QWK packets from bbs's.

BTW, signing and/or verifying email and Usenet posts is a snap for me,
so I'm pretty indifferent to the recent debates here.  But -- as usual with
public-key crypto -- key management is the rub:  I don't want to snarf
all ~6,000 keys from the servers, nor to grab keys piecemeal via email/
/finger/www every time I encounter a signed message from a cypherpunk
who's not currently in my key ring.  I could, of course, just continue to
ignore signatures, but Eric's proposal may turn into quite an interesting
experiment, judging from the responses thus far. :-)

Has anyone considered setting up a site where only folks on this list could
store and retrieve keys?  Perhaps a single file containing keys for the
hundred or so active posters that could be ftp'd and stored as a secondary
key ring...cpunkeys.pgp or whatever.  I'd really prefer to keep my main
key ring small so that access is quick (well...semi-quick).


Alan Westrope                  <awestrop@nyx.cs.du.edu>
__________/|-,                 <adwestro@ouray.denver.colorado.edu>
   (_)    \|-'                  2.6.2 public key: finger / servers
PGP 0xB8359639:  D6 89 74 03 77 C8 2D 43   7C CA 6D 57 29 25 69 23


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