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From: bob@MorningStar.Com (Bob Sutterfield)
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Subject: Re: HP server binary viruses?
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Date: 18 Jan 90 15:15:35 GMT
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In-reply-to: gjc@mga.COM's message of 18 Jan 90 01:06:20 GMT

In article <118@eileen.mga.com> gjc@mga.COM (George J. Carrette) calls me on the carpet:
   I was wondering Bob, do you have an HP machine on which to run the
   HP binaries from the R4 tape, or are you just flaming?

Neither.  I noted Mr. Phinney's confidence in the FTPable binaries,
and considered it to be overconfidence in light of anyone's real
ability to know what is in those files.  The original question from
Arthur David Olson <ado@alw.nih.gov> was valid and has not been
answered yet.

   And what you say about *NOT* being able to have a secure CHECKSUM
   file (one immune to tampering) either on the tape or distributed by
   mail just shows your ignorance of the current state of the art of
   public-key encryption.

You're right, it could be done.  But it's not yet.

(I'll be quiet now.)