I believe Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont) did this as far back as 1996. I 
recall it as being more of a publicity stunt than a policy, but at least a 
few of his releases were PGP-signed.

-Declan


At 09:23 3/22/2000 -0800, Bill Scannell wrote:
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>Hi there,
>
>My employer, DoveBid (www.dovebid.com) has just implemented a policy of
>digitally signing all press releases. as far as we can tell, no firm has
>ever done this before.
>
>I'm curious as to what you all make of this.  The implementation can be
>seen at http://www.dovebid.com/os/news/press_room.asp
>
>Cheers,
>
>Bill
>
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