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Re: Concern over Netscape announcement and GAK
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tom Weinstein)
Tue May 6 14:47:46 1997
Date: Tue, 06 May 1997 11:38:44 -0700
From: Tom Weinstein <tomw@netscape.com>
To: Marc Horowitz <marc@cygnus.com>
CC: sameer <sameer@c2.net>, cryptography@c2.net, jsw@netscape.com
Marc Horowitz wrote:
>
> Now, I would hope (Tom?) that Netscape is doing two things: separating
> signature keys from encryption keys, so that you can only escrow the
> encryption key, and supporting multiple encryption keys, so that I can
> use one for corporate email and another for personal mail, without
> jumping through hoops.
We already handle multiple keys, although you have to go through the
security prefs panel to switch which one you're using. We will support
separate encryption and signing keys before we do any kind of KR system.
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