On Sun, 2002-01-13 at 00:02, tabanna wrote:
On Sun, 13 Jan 2002, Ralph Sanford wrote:
With the loss of Phil Zimmerman from PGP (MacAfee) and the current judicial and law enforcement initiatives in the US regarding computer encryption technology, I would consider the future use of pgp as less than prudent.
~ Where, please, has Phil Zimmerman gone to ?
thanks
best wishes
From the possibly rusty memory of ralph.
Phil left PGPCorp - NAI(MacAfee) early last year. At the time he released a statement that basically stated that he was at odds with the management decision to release only a portion of the pgp code from future versions. PGPCorp followed with a statement that sufficient source code was being released to ensure privacy. My recollection was the Phil was going to work for OpenPGP. Have not heard anything since. I do not have the sources of this information. Possibly www.pgpi.org has news archives? My personal and highly opinionated view is that Phil Zimmerman represented the integrity at PGPCorp and the loss of him, especially when he publicly questioned managements decision about source code, means a significant loss of integrity and trust regarding PGPCorp. The latest version of PGP that I would fully trust is 6.5.8 as it was released long before Phil made his decision to leave. PGP 7.0 was released just prior to Phil's announcement and may have been a contributing factor to his decision. -- Ralph Sanford - If your government does not trust you, rsanford@telusplanet.net - should you trust your government? DH/DSS Key - 0x7A1BEA01