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Re: PGP security problems?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (? the Platypus {aka David Formosa})
Thu Jul 3 05:21:01 1997

Date: Thu, 3 Jul 1997 14:44:03 +1000 (EST)
From: ? the Platypus {aka David Formosa} <dformosa@st.nepean.uws.edu.au>
To: "Robert A. Costner" <pooh@efga.org>
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.19970703041536.00cc566c@mail.atl.bellsouth.net>
Reply-To: ? the Platypus {aka David Formosa} <dformosa@st.nepean.uws.edu.au>

On Thu, 3 Jul 1997, Robert A. Costner wrote:

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> I hate to see people doing such things with keyservers and keys, but we all
> knew the problem existed.  I wonder where the solution is.

Well it all depeands on what you wish to do.  A simple mail back
authentacation schem would raise the barror to router and host spoofing.
Haveing ISP's sign there users public keys would also help.

Please excuse my spelling as I suffer from agraphia see the url in my header. 
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I'm sorry but I just don't consider 'because its yukky' a convinceing argument  


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