Forwarded From: Nelson Murilo <nelson@pangeia.com.br>
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time.com / The Netly News
May 4, 1998
by Declan McCullagh, Lev Grossman and Nathaniel Wice
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We caught up to PGP founder Phil Zimmermann Saturday evening at a
party in Washington, DC. The legendary cryptographer had spoken
earlier that day to human rights advocates at the American Association
for the Advancement of Science and was on his way back from a trip to
England. He proudly handed us a shrinkwrapped copy of the
international version of PGP. Euro-PGP, marketed by Network Associates
International B.V. in Amsterdam, is just as secure as U.S.-PGP, and
was legally exported -- much to the consternation of nettled
cryptocrats at the NSA.
Zimmermann says he's been busy steering the development of PGP in
a direction consistent with the software's proud cypherpunk heritage.
Some of the new features appearing in PGP 6.0: designated revokers,
which lets you authorize a trusted friend to tell the world not to
trust your key any more if you lose it or if it's stolen. "It's kind
of like granting power of attorney to someone," Zimmermann says. The
forthcoming version will also support photo IDs -- small graphic files
-- attached to keys for added security.
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