Yo! Scott:
Saturday August 24 1996 09:40, Scott Hoffman wrote to All:
 SH> I've been reading this discussion on PGP pub keys in this echo
 SH> regarding whether they should be allowed as 'taglines', and I think
 SH> people have the right to discuss the issue obviously however, as
 SH> always I feel that people have no business feeding their input when
 SH> they have no clue about cryptography, and that is most definately the
 SH> case here..  Almost every single message I have ever read in this
 SH> entire echo about PGP and cryptography was 100 pecent totally
 SH> innacurate, just totally innacurate.  People simply cannot
 SH> distinguish between public keys, private keys, digital signatures,
 SH> hashes, checksums, etc..
If people are wrong, that is one thing.  But to call them "wrong" without 
elucidating what is "right" is on the freaking edge of forbidden turf on this 
echo.
If you know what is "right", by all means, state it.  But do NOT infer or 
state that others are "wrong" without making a case for what is "right".  
Your message above would otherwise have made a good INTRODUCTION or prelude 
to an informative article.  SO why didn't you do it?
Bill Cheek
Moderator - SCANRADIO
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