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Euro-PGP, PGP 6.0, and Y2K
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Declan McCullagh)
Mon May 4 19:55:23 1998
Date: Mon, 4 May 1998 09:21:43 -0700 (PDT)
From: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>
To: cryptography@c2.net
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time.com / The Netly News
May 4, 1998
by Declan McCullagh, Lev Grossman and Nathaniel Wice
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We caught up to PGP founder Phil Zimmermann Saturday evening at a
party in Washington, DC. The legendary cryptographer had spoken
earlier that day to human rights advocates at the American Association
for the Advancement of Science and was on his way back from a trip to
England. He proudly handed us a shrinkwrapped copy of the
international version of PGP. Euro-PGP, marketed by Network Associates
International B.V. in Amsterdam, is just as secure as U.S.-PGP, and
was legally exported -- much to the consternation of nettled
cryptocrats at the NSA.
Zimmermann says he's been busy steering the development of PGP in
a direction consistent with the software's proud cypherpunk heritage.
Some of the new features appearing in PGP 6.0: designated revokers,
which lets you authorize a trusted friend to tell the world not to
trust your key any more if you lose it or if it's stolen. "It's kind
of like granting power of attorney to someone," Zimmermann says. The
forthcoming version will also support photo IDs -- small graphic files
-- attached to keys for added security.
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Time Magazine
May 11, 1998
Page 16
The GOP Plots to Hang the 2000 Problem on Al
It's still the economy, stupid. Now that things are
going well, Al Gore is determined to make sure he
gets some credit -- whether the opportunity arises
in announcing seemingly every favorable economic
statistic that come out or in his speeches,
starting with one this week at the Detroit Economic
Club. But Gore may not always want to be
inseparable from the economy. If the Millennium Bug
sparks a recession, as various economists predict,
Republicans aim to remind voters that the high-tech
Veep who popularized the term "information
superhighway" will have had eight years in which to
tackle the problem. "The Year 2000 problem and the
Year 2000 campaign are going to be the same thing,"
says Jim Lucier of Americans for Tax Reform, a
group that has close ties to the G.O.P. The
Republican National Committee appears to be
intrigued at the prospect. Ed Yourdon, an expert on
the Millennium Bug, has been invited to speak at a
strategy-planning session. --Declan McCullagh and
Karen Tumulty/Washington
