> On Mar 26, 2018, at 5:28 PM, Charles Mills <charl...@mcn.org> wrote: > >> No longer can you talk to an IBM person directly unless you have a signed >> contract in hand and in the other hand a certified check. > > I certainly do, and all the time. As recently as week before last. > >> the AUDITOR calling someone at IBM to make sure that the package came from >> IBM > > I would guess that a certificate-signed distribution -- yes, even over the > dread Al Gore Googlenet -- is more secure than a phone call to IBM. Who knows > what evil lurks in the hearts of Federal Express. 2048 bit RSA keys, however, > do not lie. > > Charles Charles: That is beyond my (free) pay grade. The auditors are tight lipped and do not give us a clue. It would not be too surprising that they have a password system in effect but I do not know and any guessing is worthless .
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