[LINK] Another phishing tale

[Glen Turner]

Howard Lowndes wrote:

> IIRC, that was around the time that Phil Zimmerman was having problems 
> with US Customs over PGP, the Clipper chip idea, and 40 bit encryption...

It was worse than that. Even adding APIs to e-mail clients
to allow plug-in encryption -- but not actually providing
the cryptography software -- was not permitted.

The real thawing didn't happen until the era of SSLeay.
But by then the horse had long bolted for validating
e-mail identities.

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  Glen Turner   <http://www.gdt.id.au/~gdt/>