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Re: PGP "master keys"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (StealthMonger)
Fri Apr 28 23:15:33 2006
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Date: 29 Apr 2006 02:00:18 -0000
From: StealthMonger <StealthMonger@nym.alias.net>
To: cryptography@metzdowd.com
"Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@cs.columbia.edu> writes:
> In an article on disk encryption
> (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/04/26/pgp_infosec/), the following
> paragraph appears:
> BitLocker has landed Redmond in some hot water over its insistence
> that there are no back doors for law enforcement. As its
> encryption code is open source, PGP says it can guarantee no back
> doors, but that cyber sleuths can use its master keys if
> neccessary.
> What is a "master key" in this context?
Interesting epilog: theregister has apparently now edited out all
mention of master keys. In a version downloaded via the Agora
web-to-mail gateway at Sat, 29 Apr 2006 03:42:05 +0900 (JST), the
second sentence reads "PGP says its open source encryption code also
guarantees no back doors." (full stop)
-- StealthMonger
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