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- From: "Holger Kruse" <kruse@america.com>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.networking
- Subject: Re: registering PPP?
- Date: Wed, 06 Mar 1996 20:04:44 -0500
- Organization: private Amiga site
- Message-ID: <kruse.53115355@america.com>
- References: <oj6ka146caz.fsf@hpsrk.fc.hp.com> <19960303.7B152C8.F84E@ElOrbe.ibm.net> <19960304.8ED8DF0.11A36@melbxx.World.Net> <4hgd68$l0s@guava.epix.net> <19960306.79FA308.148EB@ElOrbe.ibm.net>
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- In article <19960306.79FA308.148EB@ElOrbe.ibm.net>, Raul Miro
- <cotin@ElOrbe.ibm.net> wrote:
-
- > I think in this times is a little ridiculous to send this
- > things via Snail Mail...
-
- There is nothing ridiculous about security. I happily send PPP
- key files by PGP-encrypted e-mail IF I get the PGP fingerprint
- by some secure method such as snail mail. Otherwise I ship the
- key file on floppy disk - by air mail, at my own cost.
-
- I don't quite understand the surprise of some users about this.
- This topic is explained in great detail in the PGP docs, and
- I have also explained the shipping options for PPP keys in
- PPP.guide.
-
- > I have other keys and they sent
- > them to me via E-Mail... without troubles...
-
- How do you know that there has been no trouble ? Some greedy
- sysop who has root privileges at your Internet provider's mail
- server (or at the sender) might have installed a script to
- automatically copy all uuencoded mail, and you would never
- know about it.
-
- Your key file might already be going around in the "scene",
- and the software author might get back to you and threaten
- you with a lawsuit in a few months.
-
- If other software authors handle things differently: fine.
- Personally I don't want to take unnecessary risks, and airmail
- is not that slow really...
-
- Besides look at the upside: Sending key files by snail mail
- is for your own protection, and you even get a free floppy
- disk with your own personalized label on it :-)
-
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- Holger Kruse kruse@cs.ucf.edu kruse@america.com
- http://www.america.com/~kruse/home.html
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