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Re: PGP-Signed Press Releases
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Declan McCullagh)
Wed Mar 22 18:47:51 2000
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Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 15:14:31 -0600
To: Bill Scannell <bill@scannell.org>, C2 Cryptography <cryptography@c2.net>,
Cypherpunks <cypherpunks@toad.com>
From: Declan McCullagh <declan@wired.com>
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I believe Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont) did this as far back as 1996. I
recall it as being more of a publicity stunt than a policy, but at least a
few of his releases were PGP-signed.
-Declan
At 09:23 3/22/2000 -0800, Bill Scannell wrote:
>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
>Hash: SHA1
>
>Hi there,
>
>My employer, DoveBid (www.dovebid.com) has just implemented a policy of
>digitally signing all press releases. as far as we can tell, no firm has
>ever done this before.
>
>I'm curious as to what you all make of this. The implementation can be
>seen at http://www.dovebid.com/os/news/press_room.asp
>
>Cheers,
>
>Bill
>
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>Version: PGP Personal Privacy 6.5.2
>
>iQA/AwUBONkBkfUhQXH5dzNXEQIh1gCdGLz6ROkmtAjCEenOw+xKXweMUvIAnR8Z
>KhbOyC7rP4TWRSZskfumk6KN
>=qMnE
>-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
