From: "Omegaman" <scott.harney@bigeasy.com>
Date: Sat, 15 Jun 1996 12:35:54 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Zimmerman/Viacrypt
Message-ID: <199606141429.IAA01962@betty.bigeasy.com>
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> From: Steve Reid <root@edmweb.com>
> 
> > Phil disagrees with ViaCrypts new "business" version of PGP which
> > apparently encrypts all messages with an employer-supplied public key
> > in addition to any specified by the employee.
> 
> Looking at Denning's critique (pro-escrow rant) of the NCR crypto report, 
> she mentioned that mutant version:
> 
> [http://www.cosc.georgetown.edu/~denning/crypto/NRC.txt]
>   "Other corporations are similarly adopting products with data recovery 
>   capabilities as they integrate encryption into their systems (even PGP 
>   comes with data recovery in Viacrypt's Business Edition)."
> 
> IMHO Phil Zimmerman has good reason to object to the mutant version, if
> it's going to cause the PGP name to somehow endorse escrow. 

I don't have a problem with companies escrowing keys or using a 
function like that described for Viacrypt's for official company 
business.  

Employees should be made fully aware, however, that their 
communications are being copied to a company archive.  There should 
be no illusion about the privacy of company communications using 
company-owned software.

For private communications, they should still use a personal copy of 
PGP or other encryption software of their choice.

$.02

me 

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