[Announce] A new GnuPG snapshot (unstable)

[Enzo Michelangeli]

It was on ukcrypto, in February 2000:

www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/pipermail/ukcrypto/2000-February/007744.html

Enzo

----- Original Message -----
From: "Len Sassaman" <rabbi at quickie.net>
To: "Janusz A. Urbanowicz" <alex at bofh.torun.pl>
Cc: "Werner Koch" <wk at gnupg.org>; <gnupg-devel at gnupg.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2001 4:30 AM
Subject: Re: [Announce] A new GnuPG snapshot (unstable)


> On Tue, 6 Nov 2001, Janusz A. Urbanowicz wrote:
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> > I think a good example is a 'designated' key certification service like
> > those that Thawte ran to sign PGP keys. Their ID validation procedure is
> > strong and the key may be trusted introducer.
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> Actually, Thawte's entire PGP signing system was pretty silly. They had
> the right basic idea, but totally flubbed on the details.
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> (There's a thread on this ~ december 1999 on the Cryptography list with
> the subject of "Food for Thawte," if you want to read up on what was wrong
> with their system.)
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