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- From: marc@tanda.isis.org (Marc Thibault)
- Reply-To: marc@tanda.isis.org
- Newsgroups: sci.crypt
- Subject: Re: PGP *2.0* available
- Message-ID: <573311541DN5.61R@tanda.isis.org>
- References: <1992Sep7.142336.5733@ghost.dsi.unimi.it> <1992Sep10.161945.2210@vixvax.mgi.com> <1992Sep12.032506.5521@colnet.cmhnet.org>
- Date: Mon, 14 Sep 92 10:53:34
- Distribution: na
- Organization: Thibault & Friends
- Lines: 47
-
- In article <1992Sep12.032506.5521@colnet.cmhnet.org>
- (Rob Stampfli) writes:
- ...
- > It would be nice if the current folk would issue their own signature.
-
- It's hard to believe they don't read this group - how about it
- guys? Just a short message with your public keys for comparison.
-
- >
- > Another reason may be that they are using MD5 in 2.0. Does anyone know
- > if pgp2.0 is compatible with pgp1.0?
-
- It isn't, but they have put in the hooks to assure upward
- compatibility in future versions.
-
- MOREOVER:
-
- To get the value of this, it seems to me that we all should take
- the earliest opportunity to begin broadcasting public keys and
- maybe convincing some ftp archives to start collecting them. I'm a
- newbie on Usenet so I have no idea how best to do this.
-
- Re spoofing: If I'm worried that someone's got a wedge in my mail,
- I could send messages to a number of people who have published
- their keys. The message would be encrypted with their public key
- and contain copies of my public key inside and out. The message
- would include instructions like "Please reply with a single word
- 'tomato' if both are the same and 'asparagus' if they are not,"
- using a different pair of words for each message.
-
- Whoever is spoofing would have no way of knowing what to do,
- unless they were also spoofing everybody else. The best they could
- do is stop the replies entirely, which would tell me what I needed
- to know. At this point I would send my public key under cover to a
- bunch of people with a request to broadcast it, along with a
- disclaimer on the spoofer's key.
-
-
- -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
- Version: 2.0
-
- mQBNAiqxYTkAAAECALfeHYp0yC80s1ScFvJSpj5eSCAO+hihtneFrrn+vuEcSavh
- AAUwpIUGyV2N8n+lFTPnnLc42Ms+c8PJUPYKVI8ABRG0I01hcmMgVGhpYmF1bHQg
- PG1hcmNAdGFuZGEuaXNpcy5vcmc+
- =HLnv
- -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
-
- ---
-
- Marc Thibault | | Any Warming,
- marc@tanda.isis.org | Oxford Mills, Ontario | Global or otherwise,
- CIS:71441,2226 | Canada | appreciated.
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