From: "Pat Farrell" <pfarrell@cs.gmu.edu>
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 93 07:38:18 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: RE: Commercial PGP; trapdoor rumors
Message-ID: <38183.pfarrell@cs.gmu.edu>
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In message Fri, 27 Aug 1993 01:46:57 -0400 (EDT),
  Mike Ingle <MIKEINGLE@delphi.com>  writes:

>
> Will PKP agree to condone the use of the free version for personal
> non-profit communication? They will if they know what's good for their
> bottom line. PGP could become a standard, and they stand to make
> a lot of money off its success.

In April, I talked to Jim Bidzos @ PKP, and he agreed to allow his
licensed RSA code to be built into a PGP compatible freeware program.
I believe some folks at MIT were planning to start work on it...
After all, cypherpunks write code...

Pat

Pat Farrell      Grad Student                 pfarrell@cs.gmu.edu
Department of Computer Science    George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
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