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- Path: sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!milano!cactus.org!ritter
- From: ritter@cactus.org (Terry Ritter)
- Subject: Re: PGP *2.0* available
- Message-ID: <1992Sep10.211351.16254@cactus.org>
- Organization: Capital Area Central Texas UNIX Society, Austin, Tx
- References: <716015512.F00005@utopia.hacktic.nl>
- Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 21:13:51 GMT
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- In <716015512.F00005@utopia.hacktic.nl> Nonsenso@utopia.hacktic.nl
- (Nonsenso) writes:
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- >There could have been a problem with pgp 1.0 when keys could not be
- >certified. That way it'd be easy for anyone to forge a key on your user-ID
- >and sit in the middle of communications. PGP 2.0 features this
- >key-certification and is thus a lot stronger regarding to key-security
- >than the 1.0 version.
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- Really? So how do we "certify" a key without already having a
- previously-certified key from the other end?
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- How does the first guy certify his key to others so they can certify
- their keys to him?
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- Terry Ritter ritter@cactus.org
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