[7522] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
RE: Self Decrypting Archive in PGP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Antonomasia)
Fri Jul 21 14:15:48 2000
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 19:09:50 +0100
From: Antonomasia <ant@notatla.demon.co.uk>
Message-Id: <200007211809.TAA01985@notatla.demon.co.uk>
To: ddt@lsd.com, Noah_Salzman@NAI.com, OES@Eiendomsinfo.no
Cc: cryptography@c2.net
> [So you just feel comfortable training people's users to run
> executables they get from potentially untrusted sources over the net,
> eh? Are you really helping anyone's security here?
>
> Am I the only person left on earth who finds "self-extracting" bundles
> to be a menace to security? --Perry]
No. Steve Bellovin has a web page criticising SDAs.
I think the commerical idea is that a success is something that
brings in money even if it is slow poison wrapped in paper and
burned from one end. Who wants to help the customer anyway ?
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