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Re: Self Decrypting Archive in PGP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Donald E. Eastlake 3rd)
Fri Jul 21 11:46:22 2000
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To: "'cryptography@c2.net'" <cryptography@c2.net>
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 20 Jul 2000 19:03:50 PDT."
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Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 11:27:48 -0400
From: "Donald E. Eastlake 3rd" <dee3@torque.pothole.com>
No Perry, you are not alone. Executable archives, like Active-X and
other executing content, are really a bad idea from a security point
of view.
Donald
