Re: Verisign & NAI Join Forces, PGP out the door? (fwd)

[Max Inux <maxinux@bigfoot.com>]

This is what I was able to find out about the Verisign/NAI partnership.

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---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 1998 10:22:26 -0700
From: Jon Callas <jon@pgp.com>
To: Max Inux <maxinux@bigfoot.com>, Sean_Paswater@nai.com
Cc: chip@chipware.net, jon@pgp.com
Subject: Re: Verisign & NAI Join Forces, PGP out the door? (fwd)

At 08:10 PM 6/22/98 -0700, Max Inux wrote:
   Chip and Jon:
   
   Chip:  Have any insight into this or is this gonna be like the TIS scare
   w/ Key Escrow?
   
   Jon:  Since Chip will probably end up asking you or some of the other
   higher ups if he is unsure, Is there any truth to this story, or is this
   TIS #2?
   
The tale is true -- it's the *interpretation* that's bogus. PGP is not out
the door. PGP will be doing X.509 too. There's not a lot of difference
between an X.509 certificate and a PGP key signature. They do the same
thing. What you'll be able to do is have Verisign sign your key. The first
steps of this are coming this fall -- you'll be able to drop an X.509 cert
into your keyring and it will magically transform itself into a PGP key. At
first, you'll only be able to use it with TLS (a.k.a. SSL), which is also
coming this fall. 

	Jon



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