1994-03-07 - Re: PGP (surprise, surprise..)

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From: dmandl@panix.com (David Mandl)
To: jmueller@gac.edu (Joel T Mueller)
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UTC Datetime: 1994-03-07 02:21:43 UTC
Raw Date: Sun, 6 Mar 94 18:21:43 PST

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From: dmandl@panix.com (David Mandl)
Date: Sun, 6 Mar 94 18:21:43 PST
To: jmueller@gac.edu (Joel T Mueller)
Subject: Re: PGP (surprise, surprise..)
Message-ID: <199403070221.AA19552@panix.com>
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jmueller@gac.edu says:

>Greetings,
>
>     Could anyone tell me, is it true that PGP 2.3 was watered down to
>appease the RSA folks?  If so, would it be a better idea to use 2.2?  Thanks.

Completely untrue.  I can assure you that RSA was no more appeased by 2.3
than by 2.2, though there is now of course a truly legal version in
ViaCrypt PGP.  Source code for the guerilla-ware versions is as always
available for your inspection, and you're free to compile it yourself.  You
should use the latest one, period (I believe it's currently 2.3a for MS-DOS
and UNIX; MacPGP is 2.3).

   --Dave.


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