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Message-ID: <20030509194252.GA4827@eiv.com>
From: smcmahon at eiv.com (Shawn McMahon)
Subject: PGP vs. certificate from Verisign

On Fri, May 09, 2003 at 02:57:44PM -0400, Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu said:
> 
> (Personally, I use PGP because the whole IETF/NANOG/security community is
> fairly small and closed (perhaps 10K people, tops?), and PGP is a better fit
> than X.509, which is which is designed for hundreds of millions of users that
> you've never heard of before, and will never hear from again).

I use both, depending on to whom I'm sending the email, but I use PGP by
default.


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