On Wednesday, December 15, 2010 07:38:50 pm Paul Davis did opine: > On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 5:14 AM, gene heskett <ghesk...@wdtv.com> wrote: > > Ralf I suspect, if he were to use pgp, would be like me, and only > > trust pgp-2.6.2a, the last one before they put Zimmerman in jail for > > a few years. I have often said, and have been called the uber > > paranoid for it, that one of the conditions of his release was that > > the next generation of pgp had a back door. �Denials out the yang are > > always instantaneous, but none of them came from Pete, so I have no > > choice but to conclude he is under NDA as the price of his freedom. > > Wrong also: > > Q: I heard a rumor that you cut a deal with the US Government to put a > back door in PGP in order to not be prosecuted for publishing PGP. Is > this true? Come on, you can tell me, I won't tell anyone, I promise. > > A: You heard wrong. No, I didn't cut any deals, and would not have > done so even if it was the only way to stay out of prison. But I > didn't have to negotiate with them at all. After a three year criminal > investigation, they did not indict me, because we beat them. > > This is from his own website: > http://www.philzimmermann.com/EN/faq/index.html > > paranoia will only get you so far gene :)
True, but what his own page says now, does not match the emails flying around about it back in the day. Unforch, to be able to back that up, I would have to have an email corpus that goes back farther than the 2002 date, when I had a crashed drive and lost everything I didn't have stored on the CoCo3's hard drive. That goes clear back to the Princeton days of the coco mailing list, but that stops in about 91 when I switched to an amiga, and that whole decade vaporized in drive crash after drive crash. So lets wrap it up and say that Phil's web page is correct. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) You have a deep interest in all that is artistic. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list Linux-audio-dev@lists.linuxaudio.org http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev