PGP and HMG

[Owen Blacker]

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Some links:

www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/pipermail/ukcrypto/2000-March/008373.html

http://www.iks-jena.de/mitarb/lutz/certification/mc/cert.htm

And p81 of the PGP 7.x for Windows User Guide (available from
ftp://ftp.pgpi.org/pub/pgp/7.0/docs/english/PGPWinUsersGuide.pdf
should you not have a copy   :o)

HTH,


O
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Owen Blacker
Senior Software Developer / InfoSec Consultant    Wheel: Clerkenwell
See http://www.owens-place.org.uk/pgp.html -- more about my PGP keys
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Martin Hepworth [mailto:martinh@solid-state-logic.com]
> Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2001 3:41 PM
> To: ukcrypto@chiark.greenend.org.uk
> Subject: Re: PGP and HMG
> 
> 
> 
> Now that's one big PKI roleout I want to see. Be nice to see 
> how well it
> operates after a few months with revokation lists getting longer
> and longer as people leave/move/forget their key password....
> 
> But more positively this is the sort of ' PKI roleout that could
> well bring signed/encrypted comms into wide use. 
> 
> Now all I need to do it to figure out how to get PGP and X.509
> certs working togther, then add all my colleagues into my LDAP 
> public directory!
> 
> --
> Martin Hepworth
> Senior Systems Administrator
> Solid State Logic Ltd
> +44 (0)1865 842300
> 
> Donald ramsbottom wrote:
> > 
> > Below is a report on CW360, the URL is several miles long 
> and I could not
> > get it out. I found it via the page David Biggins put up on 
> EU property
> > Law, the link is on that page.
> > 
> > I wonder whether they will be rippable, (nah crown and all 
> that), but I bet
> > there will be fun and games with the keys etc, bureaucrat 
> meets security
> > and keyring admin! When do you think the firdt keyring dsk 
> will be found at
> > Kings Cross?
> > 
> > "the Government is to implement encryption technology to
> > enable secure e-mail communication between its
> > departments, a move that could save taxpayer's money and
> > increase efficiency.
> > 
> > PGP Security last week said it was to supply government
> > departments with a 128-bit version of its PGP for HMG
> > encryption product.
> > 
> > It said the product would provide encryption technology at the
> > approved baseline/ restricted level which would enable
> > government bodies and commercial partners to communicate
> > securely.
> > 
> > "Any government information that is sensitive is not sent
> > electronically, instead it is saved on a disc and physically
> > taken to the other department - at the taxpayer's expense," said
> > Mark Tucker, sales manager for PGP. The company said version 6.0
> > of PGP for HMG will be fully inter-operable with its commercial
> > counterpart.
> > 
> > "The sheer volume of restricted information that governments
> > need to transfer electronically means they need a solution they
> > can trust," said John Doody, head of customer services at the
> > government's National Technical Information Security Authority.
> > 
> > Daniel Thomas
> > daniel.thomas@rbi.co"
> > 
> > Donald Ramsbottom BA LLb (Hons) PGdip
> > Ramsbottom & Co Solicitors
> > Internet and Global Encryption Law Specialists & General UK 
>  Law Matters
> > 5 Seagrove Avenue Hayling Island Hampshire UK
> > Tel (44) 023 9246 5931 Fax (44) 023 9246 8349
> > Regulated by the Law Society in the conduct of Investment
> > business Service by Fax or Email NOT accepted
> 
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