1994-05-16 - Re: PGP 2.5 Beta Release Over, PGP 2.6 to be released next week
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From: Bob Snyder <snyderra@dunx1.ocs.drexel.edu>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Message Hash: 128d429a03c83cf75c646fec3ff23e6b16a7990772e88eabe6fd65e782a3678c
Message ID: <199405161832.OAA05357@dunx1.ocs.drexel.edu>
Reply To: <9405161804.AA08573@big-screw>
UTC Datetime: 1994-05-16 18:33:27 UTC
Raw Date: Mon, 16 May 94 11:33:27 PDT
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From: Bob Snyder <snyderra@dunx1.ocs.drexel.edu>
Date: Mon, 16 May 94 11:33:27 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: PGP 2.5 Beta Release Over, PGP 2.6 to be released next week
In-Reply-To: <9405161804.AA08573@big-screw>
Message-ID: <199405161832.OAA05357@dunx1.ocs.drexel.edu>
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Jeffrey I. Schiller scribbles:
> In order to fully protect RSADSI's intellectual property rights in
> public-key technology, PGP 2.6 will be designed so that the messages it
> creates after September 1, 1994 will be unreadable by earlier versions
> of PGP that infringe patents licensed exclusively to Public Key Partners
> by MIT and Stanford University. PGP 2.6 will continue to be able to read
> messages generated by those earlier versions.
So how long do you think it'll take after the release of 2.6 for
patches that disable this "feature" to come out?
And what about ViaCrypt's PGP 2.4?
Bob
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- 1994-05-16 (Mon, 16 May 94 11:04:13 PDT) - PGP 2.5 Beta Release Over, PGP 2.6 to be released next week - Jeffrey I. Schiller <jis@mit.edu>
- 1994-05-16 (Mon, 16 May 94 11:17:39 PDT) - Re: PGP 2.5 Beta Release Over, PGP 2.6 to be released next week - “Robert A. Hayden” <hayden@krypton.mankato.msus.edu>
- 1994-05-16 (Mon, 16 May 94 11:33:27 PDT) - Re: PGP 2.5 Beta Release Over, PGP 2.6 to be released next week - Bob Snyder <snyderra@dunx1.ocs.drexel.edu>
- 1994-05-16 (Mon, 16 May 94 11:53:45 PDT) - Re: PGP 2.5 Beta Release Over, PGP 2.6 to be released next week - Adam Shostack <adam@bwh.harvard.edu>
- 1994-05-16 (Mon, 16 May 94 11:35:02 PDT) - Re: PGP 2.5 Beta Release Over, PGP 2.6 to be released next week - Sandy Sandfort <sandfort@crl.com>
- 1994-05-16 (Mon, 16 May 94 11:50:36 PDT) - Re: PGP 2.5 Beta Release Over, PGP 2.6 to be released next week - paul@hawksbill.sprintmrn.com (Paul Ferguson)
- 1994-05-16 (Mon, 16 May 94 11:56:27 PDT) - Re: PGP 2.5 Beta Release Over, PGP 2.6 to be released next week - “Perry E. Metzger” <perry@imsi.com>
- 1994-05-16 (Mon, 16 May 94 12:00:53 PDT) - Re: PGP 2.5 Beta Release Over, PGP 2.6 to be released next week - Alan Barrett <barrett@daisy.ee.und.ac.za>
- 1994-05-16 (Mon, 16 May 94 13:43:45 PDT) - Re: PGP 2.5 Beta Release Over, PGP 2.6 to be released next week - Dave Crookes <D.J.Crookes@sheffield.ac.uk>
- 1994-05-17 (Mon, 16 May 94 21:04:38 PDT) - Re: PGP 2.5 Beta Release Over, PGP 2.6 to be released next week - Mark Carter <carterm@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA>