From: amp@pobox.com
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 1997 20:24:52 +0800
To: mark@unicorn.com
Subject: Re: PGP 5.5 CMR/GAK: a possible solution
In-Reply-To: <877521655.28888.193.133.230.33@unicorn.com>
Message-ID: <Chameleon.877518914.amp@rcnu3077>
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>> One thing that I think PGP needs more than anything else, is to make it
easy
> > to build lists of keys to encrypt to. 
 
> I'm not sure that it's quite what you're suggesting, but I was thinking
> that this idea could be extended to an arbitrary hierachy; for example,
> company key, department key, individual escrowed key, individual-only
> key. The sender could then choose which of these keys to encrypt to based
> on the sensitivity of the message. Again, this couldn't be extended to
> GAK because if the FBI were to put themselves at the top of the hierachy
> we wouldn't be able to read any mail which was encrypted to their key!

Actually, what I had in mind is just the ability to create your own list of
recipients and use a single group name be what you select to encrypt to 
that
list, rather than having to select each individual every time you encrypt.
kinda like the stuff I've had in my email program for ages. Nothing formal
about the heirarchy, just a way to click on one 'name' and have the keys
I've previously assigned to that name be used.



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Name: amp
E-mail: amp@pobox.com
Date: 10/22/97
Time: 07:05:56
Visit me at http://www.pobox.com/~amp
==
     -export-a-crypto-system-sig -RSA-3-lines-PERL
#!/bin/perl -sp0777i<X+d*lMLa^*lN%0]dsXx++lMlN/dsM0<j]dsj
$/=unpack('H*',$_);$_=`echo 16dio\U$k"SK$/SM$n\EsN0p[lN*1
lK[d2%Sa2/d0$^Ixp"|dc`;s/\W//g;$_=pack('H*',/((..)*)$/)
==

'Drug Trafficking Offense' is the root passphrase to the Constitution.

Have you seen 
http://www.public-action.com/SkyWriter/WacoMuseum
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