From: Greg Broiles <greg@ideath.goldenbear.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 95 15:54:49 PST
To: mab@crypto.com
Subject: why pgp sucks
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Matt Blaze, quoting Greg Morgan, wrote:

> >Doesn't having some kind of central record of keys go against
> >the principle of PGP?  

> The only "principle" of which I'm aware (and particularly interested
> in supporting) is that of having widely fielded, useful and strong
> privacy and authentication tools that work properly and transparently.

I think the centralization/decentralization confusion comes from PGP's
decentralized approach to key generation and authentication, which has
been hailed as a good thing. As long as folks can generate their own
keys, sign their friends' keys, and upload their keys to servers at 
their own discretion, I can't see what would make a centralized or
standardized distribution method harmful.


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