"Steven M. Bellovin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In an article on disk encryption > (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/04/26/pgp_infosec/), the following > paragraph appears:
> BitLocker has landed Redmond in some hot water over its insistence > that there are no back doors for law enforcement. As its > encryption code is open source, PGP says it can guarantee no back > doors, but that cyber sleuths can use its master keys if > neccessary. > What is a "master key" in this context? Interesting epilog: theregister has apparently now edited out all mention of master keys. In a version downloaded via the Agora web-to-mail gateway at Sat, 29 Apr 2006 03:42:05 +0900 (JST), the second sentence reads "PGP says its open source encryption code also guarantees no back doors." (full stop) -- StealthMonger --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
