On Wednesday, December 15, 2010 07:38:50 pm Paul Davis did opine:
On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 5:14 AM, gene heskett
<gheskett(a)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
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