[1709] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: Are we all looking at the same PGP 5.5 ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Frantz)
Tue Oct 7 14:20:57 1997
In-Reply-To: <199710070246.UAA11626@nyx10.nyx.net>
Date: Tue, 7 Oct 1997 09:40:37 -0700
To: Colin Plumb <colin@nyx.net>, cryptography@c2.net
From: Bill Frantz <frantz@netcom.com>
At 7:46 PM -0700 10/6/97, Colin Plumb wrote:
>Actually, it would scare you what customers asked for. There are people
>using PGP now in a "I will generate your key and keep a copy" mode.
>Not a very nice thing. The "spare key" facility it to try to *reduce*
>the need to have people share keys.
I have always thought there were good solid reasons for people to share
keys. Because we live in a community property state, if my monthly bills
were sent encrypted, they should be encrypted to a key that both my wife
and I share. (An alternative would be to encrypt them to our two private
keys.)
The alternative becomes less desirable when many people are involved. A
Microsoft customer support key might be used by all the customer support
representatives. I assume there are at least 100 of them.
Perhaps someone from PGP Inc. could describe how access to "Pretty Good
Privacy, Inc. Corporate Key", fingerprint CDEA 5826 DC30 7398 41BA 4BE7
17B6 6934 0525 419B and PGP Support key DSS, fingerprint B90E 4502 9451
A474 6918 4041 312D 8A38 9FD6 28D4 are controlled.
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