Weaving a PGP Web of trust..proposal? comments? (fwd)

[George Foot]

On Mon 17 Aug, Nigel Hickson wrote:
> Colleagues 
> 
> Well at last I see it; the need for "approved" CAs for users of PGP.  So
> the government were right all along........
> 
> Nigel Hickson 

Surely a very serious over-simplification in this comment.

The implication is that PGP is the most desirable solution to the 
non-military cryptosystem problem.

It is PGP (and Public Key Systems generally) which create the problems  
of Key Distribution and hence bring about the proposal for CAs as a remedy 
-- a remedy which falls far short of a cure.

This is not the place to enlarge on this topic but there are other and 
better cryptosystems which will ensure privacy in personal and commercial 
transactions avoiding entirely the need for governmental participation 
in a search for ever-elusive international agreements. 

George Foot






 

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