Phil Zimmermann Talk Summary And Audio

Ames Cornish writes "Philip Zimmermann, the creator of PGP, spoke on Security and Privacy to a standing-room-only crowd in San Francisco on July 31st. There is a short summary and audio recording of the event on the Software Development Forum site. Phil talked about Dmitry Sklyarov, Nicodemo Scarfo, Phil's own experience as the victim of US government persecution, and how automatic weapons were involved in the attempt to get export permission for PGP." The MP3 is at the bottom of the page.

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"PGP" for Linux

[yukonbob]

There's an article (one of two) on the Linux Journal website about GNU Privacy Guard for PGP functionality for us *NIX folks.

-yb

That gun bit was pretty funny

[ehintz]

My memory of the talk at SDForum...

The PGP guys were getting around export restrictions by printing the code on paper, which they distributed at a crypto group meeting, with the old nudge nudge wink wink type of intention (somebody sent it overseas? I'm shocked, shocked I tell you). So here they are, purposefully handing it out in this very public forum, as a CYOA move trying to legitimize the distribution. And later in the meeting, some guy pops up with a big duffel bag, and announces the gun SIG will be meeting next week for some shooting or something, and unzips the bag and pulls out some kind of automatic rifle, mortifying Phil and crew. Better yet, the meeting was being held on the 15th floor of a bank, so if the guy had been caught walking into the building, well, you do the math... Would've been wonderful to be a fly on the wall that day...