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Re: Bug#17959: pgp-i: new upstream version



Hi,
>>"Juergen" == Juergen Menden <menden@morgana.camelot.de> writes:

Juergen> Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@datasync.com> wrote:
>>  If I am dealing with valuable data at work, (as opposed to playing
>> with encription toys), I would appreciate this feature. This means
>> that I can share data with the office on London, etc, but if my
>> co-worker is on sick leave, we can still get hold of the data and
>> work on it. [...] Then the privacy umbrella is expanded to include
>> the recipients, and the corporate recovery user. So data can't be
>> lost because someone didn't come in to work.

Juergen> sorry, i don't know how this feature works, but isn't it
Juergen> quite an old one? even with pgp 2.6 i was able to encrypt
Juergen> data so that it can be decrypted with several keys.

	All the keys had to be explicitly specified.

Juergen> what's new to this feature?

	Now, if you configure pgp on a system to do so, it
 automatically encrypts everything such that it can be decrypted with
 a designated key. 

	This can be used in good ways (have a company key so valuable
 data can be recovered) or in bad ways (snooping into private
 documents) or in big brother ways (the designated key is a government
 key).

	I still think we should not be in the business of judging that
 some tools are too dangerous to be used by people, even of there are
 good ways to use them, But this seems to be a politically hot
 potato. 

	manoj

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