In <v03110703b06c42291a03(_at_)[206(_dot_)183(_dot_)203(_dot_)100]>, on
10/16/97
at 05, Roland Silver <rollo(_at_)artvark(_dot_)com> said:
I'm interested in PGP 5.x, but I don't understand the criticism of it. Do
certain versions of PGP have GAK or CMR capability built in? If I use
such a version to send a message encrypted with Alice's public key, will
someone other than Alice, such as the FBI, be able to read it without my
knowledge or consent?
If the answer to that question is on some FAQ, please point me to it.
Dispite some of the FUD and Fearmongering going on, there is no version of
PGP that allows a 3rd party to decrypt a message without your knowledge
(there is no backdoors in any version of PGP). Now what Alice does after
she has decrypted the message is another matter that is beyond your
control. :)
Now just for the those in the "cheap seats": If you encrypt a message with
and only with Alice's public key then only someone who has a copy of
Alice's private key can decrypt it. Hopefully Alice is the only one who
has that key, but like the decrypted message, you really have no controll
of what Alice does with her keys.
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