From: Adam Back <aba@dcs.ex.ac.uk>
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 1997 20:58:57 +0800
To: Tim May <tcmay@got.net>
Subject: PGP Inc isn't using CMR (Re: wanted dead or alive: pgp5.5 key pair)Tue, 21 Oct 1997 18:06:04 -0700)
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Tim May <tcmay@got.net> writes:
> At 4:34 PM -0700 10/21/97, Adam Back wrote:
> >Enciphering minds want to find out how pgp5.0 reacts to this key :-)
> >
> >(The question is really does pgp5.0 encrypt to the CMR key).
> 
> Why not just try to send a message to "phil@pgp.com"?
>
> Surely PGP, Inc. is itself using its own product?

Strangely not.  Tom Zerucha asked this question over on open-pgp, and
Jon Callas replied:

Jon Callas <jon@pgp.com> wrote:
: Tom Zerucha <@spam-resistant-email-address> wrote:
:
:    But let me ask a question about PGP, Inc. - Do they use the PGP 5.5
:    version with corporate key recovery internally?
:    
: No, we don't. We have no need to. It would be inappropriate for our
: environment.

Guess that answers that one then.

> (I know if I were Jon Seybold and I had a radical"No nukes" nut like Phil
> on my staff, :-), I'd want to monitor what he was saying to people and what
> they were saying to him.)

Some fairly hot things by all accounts: all about resistance fighters,
and terrorists.  Really ought to watch that guy :-)

He has a laptop which he carries everywhere too -- probably with his
non-CMR old prz@acm.org key on it -- reckon he'll be fiercely hanging
on to that one :-)

Adam
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