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Old 21st February 2012
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I believe it was Phil Zimmermann, father of PGP, who exclaimed widely and wisely that ...the second you involve a third party is the same second you lose the surety of privacy.

CAs are third parties. In a for profit monetized X509 space, certificate escrow and its variants is a quiet fact.

PGP never needed third parties, though in their day the key ring servers were considered administratively challenging -- a hurdle that likely would have been overcome had PGP gotten to the critical mass tipping point.

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