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echo: scanners
to: JOE NICHOLSON
from: FRANK GLOVER
date: 1996-08-19 21:53:00
subject: RULEMAKING: PGP SIGS

 
 BC> The issue hasn't been raised before.  But PGP and/or digital
 BC> signatures are a coming standard and way of life throughout
 BC> networking, and so I am reluctant to nix the procedures just yet.
 JN>  They should be banned as violation of POLICY4's encryption rule.
 
   But it's not an encrypted message itself, merely a means of proving that 
the message really did come from the alleged sender, and not someone 
pretending to be him/her.
 
   Frank
 
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