[52984] in Cypherpunks
Re: Crypto CD UpDate
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Frantz)
Sat Mar 30 11:54:14 1996
Date: Sat, 30 Mar 1996 08:41:46 -0800
To: JR@ns.cnb.uam.es, cypherpunks@toad.com
From: frantz@netcom.com (Bill Frantz)
At 8:36 PM 3/28/96 +0100, JR@ns.cnb.uam.es wrote:
> I may -or not- trust the people at unimi, but would I also trust
>a lot of intermediate people putting up together a CD-ROM? For that sake,
>and considering the costs of storage and removable storage media, I'd
>bet many people would find more useful to download their copies from
>the net (even once a year only) as I did.
If pieces of the source/executable are digitally signed, you have a basis
for some degree of trust. (My pgp came with a detached signature. A bit
self-referental, but at least a start.)
Regards - Bill
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