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: >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >Hash: SHA1 > >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 > >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >Version: PGP Personal Privacy 6.5.2 > >iQA/AwUBONkBkfUhQXH5dzNXEQIh1gCdGLz6ROkmtAjCEenOw+xKXweMUvIAnR8Z >KhbOyC7rP4TWRSZskfumk6KN >=qMnE >-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

