Re: Bug#17959: pgp-i: new upstream version
On Mon, Feb 09, 1998 at 09:56:32PM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote:
> Folks, we can't drop any pgp 2.6.x version in favour of pgp 5.x.
That is true, because pgp2.6.3i is needed for backwards
compability.
> The release of PGP 5.5 Business contains Company Message Recovery
> (CMR). Even release 5.0 supports CMR. What is CMR you might ask?
> It's similar to key recovery. You're sending an encrypted message
> and without your knowledge it's encrypted with a third key so your
> boss (or the government) may read it, too. Nifty feature, right?
Stop the FUD. That is an _optional_ feature, if you want
you can enable it -- if you don't, then _don't_.
All it does is this: whenever you encrypt something, it
encrypts it so that it is readable by one certain key also.
You could use this mechanism to make sure you yourself can
access messages you encrypt for others.
> This normally won't work the other way round as a remote user won't
> encrypt his message with the company's key, too. To enable this
> additional fields were added (ARR - Additional Recipient Record)
> that tell the other pgp program to encrypt the message with an
> additional key so the company is still able to decrypt it.
[...]
> As a side note this has made several people quite angry who have
> scanned and proof-read the pgp books to get an international
> pgp release.
Show us the code. Give us a link to a webpage. Anything
*real*.
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