Date: Sun, 07 May 2000 13:10:56 -0700 From: Will Price To: pgp-users@cryptorights.org Subject: Re: [PGP-USERS] PGP & NAI - Alternatives and possible NSA relationship ? Reply-To: pgp-users@cryptorights.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Anyone who knows anything about the history of PGP knows that any such accusation is utter nonsense. We have always published the source code to PGP, and the reputations of all the people in control of PGP at NAI are untarnished and distinctively anti-government. If you're just looking for a random conspiracy theory to believe, remember that PGP development is funded by users, and GPG development is funded by the German government. There is a always a tendency at government levels to prefer domestic solutions to national security concerns. For instance, no one in their right mind would ever use a Checkpoint firewall in the US government. That attitude has no basis in fact of course, but is simply a conspiracy theory. Thus, some German government flunkie writing that NAI may be controlled by the NSA is to be expected in a situation where they have a domestic command line that tries to imitate portions of what PGP was in 1991. Someone in their government would rather use a domestic solution, and FUD is the best way to force people to use an inferior solution rather than the real thing. - -- Will -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 7.0 (Build 163 Alpha) iQA/AwUBORXNx6y7FkvPc+xMEQIJAQCgvCak5kHrPY3RJorEVwuueQV8JP8AoMhd xPN9mCLuhNPmqYF2VhsBGHTe =QiAm -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- .................................................................... UUnsubscribe: Automated Help/Info: List Homepage: List Admin (human): Please do not send administrative commands to the list address! Thanks.