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- From: strnlght@netcom.com (David Sternlight)
- Subject: Re: PGP as a World Standard
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.185308.25306@netcom.com>
- Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
- References: <1992Dec18.021308.10817@ulysses.att.com> <1992Dec18.094613.18728@netcom.com> <bontchev.724945521@fbihh>
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 18:53:08 GMT
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- Vesselin Bontchev asks why I don't revoke my key. The reason is because
- now that I understand the legal position I won't use PGP. To revoke
- my key en clair would be insecure and many have argued about the
- dangers of spoofing.
-
- Besides, the key does no harm out there. Those who wish to delete it
- are certainly free so to do. I see no reason why someone would
- send me a PGP message, and if they were so to do, I could easily
- ask them to retransmit it in clear.
-
- I can't help feeling that Vesselin isn't really serious in his request,
- but has his tongue in his cheek. If he IS serious, then he's attempting
- to induce me to use PGP illegally, and I won't.
-
- By the way, in a previous message, Vesselin argues that he comes from
- a country (Bulgaria) without patent (or was it copyright) protections,
- as if that is an argument that should carry weight.
-
- Hardly. In the former Soviet Union many crimes were committed which
- were not illegal, as, I warrant, in Bulgaria. That doesn't make them
- right. I suggest that if present-day Bulgaria wishes to gain the benefits
- of membership in the international economic community, or the EEC, it
- will have to bring its intellectual property laws in line, and until
- then, many of its actions constitute stealing according to international
- norms, even if not under the laws of Bulgaria.
-
- David
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