Hey Phil...
Ed Suominen
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"I'm not about to allow a product with my name on it to have any
secret back doors." - PRZ, PGP v.6.5 User's Guide.
Phil, how about inadvertent back doors from code that was implemented
contrary to the OpenPGP standards to accomodate the corporate
snoopers? (I say this as a disappointed admirer.) See the following
post from Adam Back on the GPG user's listserv, at
http://lists.gnupg.org/gnupg-users-200008/msg00218.html
"Amazing, and really unfortunate. Those of us who invested large
amounts of effort in ensuring the ADK subpackets were not included in
the ietf openPGP standard can be pleased we succeeded -- otherwise
gnuPG and other implementations may now also have contributed to this
risk. As it is gnuPG doesn't honor ADK requests, and all the rfc2440
says about them is: 10 = placeholder for backward compatibility"
I'd say it's time to start watching for the release of the GNU
Privacy Assistant instead of just PGP 7.0... (See
http://www.gnupg.org/gpa.html).
Ed Suominen
Registered Patent Agent
Web Site: http://eepatents.com
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