[721] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: Full Strength Stronghold 2.0 Released Worldwide
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adam Shostack)
Tue May 6 23:47:16 1997
From: Adam Shostack <adam@homeport.org>
In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19970506200412.00741304@netcom13.netcom.com> from Lucky Green at "May 6, 97 08:04:29 pm"
To: shamrock@netcom.com (Lucky Green)
Date: Tue, 6 May 1997 23:05:11 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: cryptography@c2.net
I believe that it is useful to be able to recover data encrypted to a
private key to which I have lost access. Are you disagreeing that
this would be useful, or stating that there are methods other than KR
to do this?
Adam
Lucky Green wrote:
| At 09:37 AM 5/6/97 -0400, Adam Shostack wrote:
| >I agree with Sameer here. What is the requirement being served by
| >KR/OKAY in Netscape's system?
| >
| >Adam
| >
| >(I also like Sameer's use of KR/OKAY and KR/GAK to indicate how close
| >they are to each other. Mandated OKAY features can be turned into
| >GAK. Better to let the market decide which KR features are needed,
| >and how to implement them.)
|
| Wrong assumption. It is not which KR features are needed. It is if KR is
| needed. I hold that KR is not needed in the enterprise. Despite what
| business has been told and now nearly universally assumes to be true.
|
|
|
| -- Lucky Green <mailto:shamrock@netcom.com> PGP encrypted mail preferred
|
| "I do believe that where there is a choice only between cowardice and
| violence, I would advise violence." Mahatma Gandhi
|
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