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Re: reflecting on PGP, keyservers, and the Web of Trust
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dan Geer)
Tue Sep 5 19:13:29 2000
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To: David Honig <honig@sprynet.com>
Cc: cryptography@c2.net
In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 01 Sep 2000 15:48:48 EDT."
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Date: Sun, 03 Sep 2000 17:33:10 -0400
From: Dan Geer <geer@world.std.com>
> How do they exchange public keys? Via email I'll bet.
Note that it is trivial(*) to construct a self-decrypting
archive and mail it in the form of an attachment. The
recipient will merely have to know the passphrase. If
transit confidentiality is your aim and old versions
of documents are irrelevant once the ink is dry on the
proverbial bond paper, this is quite workable and involves
no WoT at all, just POTS.
--dan
* trivial: memorizable by clerks in an all Windows world...
