[87860] in Cypherpunks
Re: What's really in PGP 5.5?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike)
Wed Oct 8 09:08:06 1997
Date: Wed, 08 Oct 1997 14:46:58 +0200
To: Jon Callas <jon@pgp.com>
From: Mike <Michael.Johnson@mejl.com>
Cc: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net, cryptography@c2.net, risks@csl.sri.com
In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.19971007142710.00a22970@mail.pgp.com>
Reply-To: Mike <Michael.Johnson@mejl.com>
Jon Callas wrote:
>To sum up, we created the Corporate Mesage Recovery feature to satisfy the
>requirements of our customers who need emergency access to data. We made
>careful decisions to make it useful and effective for honest people, while
>minimizing its potential for abuse. No one has to use it; we do not include
>it with PGP freeware, nor with PGP for Personal Privacy.
What happens when the non corporate versions of PGP encrypts a message to
Alice? Will they disregard the recovery key and encrypt to Bob, or simply
fail?
Mike.
