[6951] in Kerberos
Re: done any survey on who uses pub key cryptography?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John H West)
Tue Mar 26 12:24:16 1996
To: kerberos@MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 1996 09:00:08 GMT
From: jwest@eskimo.com (John H West)
On Sat, 23 Mar 1996 14:50:51 GMT Mattg@world.std.com (Matt
Galster) wrote:
>tjsatter@prairienet.org (Thomas J. Satterfield) wrote:
>>sophisticated cryptography. Crypto, PGP, etc is so far
>>beyond the comprehension of the "average" real-life
>>computer user that until it is built into software as
>>seamlessly as the Netscape secure-site protocols, I do
>>not think it will ever be used as extensively as we
>>would like to see. That's just the way it is. People
>>who can read and comprehend this message are for the
>>most part a very tiny minority of computer users (IMHO)
>>Tom Satterfield
>>tjsatter@prairienet.org
>Netscape's mail window in 2.0 has a PGP encrypt button,
>as well as send via anon-remailer button. Have yet to
>try the PGP button but the anon-remail part works pretty
>well.
>MEG
I haven't closely followed the crypto-groups lately, but I
have wondered quite a lot if there has been much speculation
as to whether Netscape might be a trojan horse. Not only
could it send a copy of a user's secret key, but if used as
above, his passphrase as well. I have placed my secret key
onto a floppy, but even still I have doubts that it hasn't
been compromised.
john
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