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Re: New PGP signatures

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rick Osborne)
Mon Jun 23 14:21:16 1997

Date: Mon, 23 Jun 1997 13:38:02 -0400
To: cypherpunks mailing list <cypherpunks@algebra.com>
From: Rick Osborne <osborne@gateway.grumman.com>
In-Reply-To: <33AEBB4A.3E9CB5E6@popmail.firn.edu>
Reply-To: Rick Osborne <osborne@gateway.grumman.com>

bennett_t1@popmail.firn.edu wrote:
>some asshole forgot to make PGP 5.0 freeware RSA key-generating

Okay, silly question here, but what's to stop someone from adding that
capability once the source is available?  (And if they knew they were going
to publish the source, why not just add the capability in the first place?)
-- Rick Osborne, <osborne@gateway,grumman.com>
"Unbelievable!  Even over the air waves, this Senator person eminates
evil as if it were musk!"
-- Gates, Legion of Superheroes


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