[12912] in Cypherpunks
Re: A distribution solution!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeff Davis)
Tue May 3 02:46:33 1994
To: lassie!jim%lassie@netcom.com
Date: Mon, 2 May 1994 23:43:03 -0700 (PDT)
From: Jeff Davis <eagle@deeptht.armory.com>
Cc: cypher <cypherpunks@toad.com>
In-Reply-To: <157@lassie.lassie.uucp> from "Jim Nalbandian" at May 2, 94 10:10:00 pm
> It is often stated that PGP is available on numerous Internet FTP sites and
> many BBS's. The average person knows as much about FTP sites as they hear
> on the evening news about the information superhighway. They may keep
> financial books or maybe write books on their computer but they do not have
> substantial online experiance and they may have a need for secure data
> encryption or secure way to send data to a publisher, business partner etc.
> not access these. How could people change this I wonder?
The EFF infobot for Adam Gaffin's Big Dummies Guide is <bdguide@eff.org>. It
contains instructions on how to anonymous ftp. An up to date list of sites to
fpt PGP from is available in the crypto section.
> People talk about handing PGP or other crypto software out but there is a
> substantial cost to the return of each disk. 1 disk=one user. In my opinion
> the easy way to do it would be this:
We made PGP 2.3a available at the Armory and even have the docs for those who
need them.
> They now know where and how to precisely find the stuff and what it does.
> Jim Nalbandian netcomsv!lassie!jim%lassie@netcom.com
What Jim said...
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