From: Clyde Williamson <clydew@ee.net>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
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From: Clyde Williamson <clydew@ee.net>
Date: Tue, 9 Dec 1997 07:10:54 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: A Pretty Good Story, from The Netly News
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Well, I guess we can call off the hit on Zimmermann... hehehe.
BTW- Is there any way to create keys on PGP 5.0 besides the Diffe-
Hellman alg.?
>*********
>
>http://cgi.pathfinder.com/netly/opinion/0,1042,1617,00.html
>
>The Netly News Network (http://netlynews.com/)
>December 8, 1997
>
>A Pretty Good Story
>by Declan McCullagh (declan@well.com)
>
> Phil Zimmermann had it easy fighting the U.S. government: At
> least everyone else was on his side. Today the legendary
cryptographer
> and founder of Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) is finding that his
latest
> adversaries are just as determined but much more diverse.
>
> Earlier this fall PGP drew fire for releasing PGP 5.5 with a
> so-called "message recovery" feature that a corporation could
require
> users to turn on to let the boss read their e-mail. Then, when
McAfee
> Associates announced last week it would buy PGP, formerly
supportive
> privacy advocates screamed that the company's new owners were
part of
> the "Key Recovery Alliance," a group of firms devoted to
producing
> data-scrambling software easily snoopable by the government.
>
> Now the complaining may stop, at least for a while. The
> McAfee-PGP combo, called Network Associates, has dropped out of
the
> alliance. "I never would have allowed my own company to join the
Key
> Recovery Alliance," Zimmermann told me yesterday. "As soon as I
found
> out about McAfee being a member, I tried to do something about
it."
>
>[...]
>
>
>
>
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Clyde Williamson
PGP Public Key found at http://users1.ee.net/clydew/pgp.htm
"My uncle always said that there was more
than one way to skin a cat....
I guess that explains the fur pants."
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