[42561] in Cypherpunks
Re: Keyed-MD5, ITAR, and HTTP-NG
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kevin L Prigge)
Tue Oct 31 01:54:53 1995
From: Kevin L Prigge <klp@gold.tc.umn.edu>
To: Doug.Hughes@Eng.Auburn.EDU (Doug Hughes)
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 1995 00:50:29 -0600 (CST)
Cc: black@sunflash.eng.usf.edu, cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <doug-9509302237.AA0062331@netman.eng.auburn.edu> from "Doug Hughes" at Oct 30, 95 04:37:28 pm
According to rumor, Doug Hughes said:
> > Since you deal with security issues maybe you can help me to learn
> >about some issues with encryption. I am talking with one of the
> >administration people about putting PGP on the system for everyone to
> >use, but there are issues for them (the admin) as they might be liable,
> >even if they can't read the e-mail. What other legal considerations
> >should be evaluated?
> > Is there any large organizations (like any other universities) that
> >allow their students to use PGP, and have the system in place to make it
> >easier for the students? If it is offered here I might be the one to add
> >to the mail program (pine) that is generally used to transparently use
> >PGP, which is what I mean by having a system set up for the encryption.
> > Thanx for any help. Take care and have fun.
> >
> >James Black
> >black@suntan.eng.usf.edu
> >
> >
> We have approx 1000 machines and 5000 user accounts and have pgp installed.
> I can't think of any reason not to have it installed, and lots of good
> reasons for having it installed.
We currently have PGP installed on our 2 central email servers that
have approximatly 20,000 users. We haven't integrated it at this
point into Pine, etc mostly due to time and resources.
I don't know why inability to read e-mail would cause liability,
and moving 2 million messages a week, I don't think that anyone
could be expected to know what users are sending. We only respond
to complaints.
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