1994-05-16 - Re: PGP outside the US

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From: Adam Shostack <adam@bwh.harvard.edu>
To: gtoal@an-teallach.com (Graham Toal)
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Message ID: <199405162109.RAA12306@spl.bwh.harvard.edu>
Reply To: <199405162053.VAA11926@an-teallach.com>
UTC Datetime: 1994-05-16 21:09:49 UTC
Raw Date: Mon, 16 May 94 14:09:49 PDT

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From: Adam Shostack <adam@bwh.harvard.edu>
Date: Mon, 16 May 94 14:09:49 PDT
To: gtoal@an-teallach.com (Graham Toal)
Subject: Re: PGP outside the US
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Graham wrote:

| This is why I specifically don't want a copy of 2.5/2.6... - and I
| can't see any need for it anyway.

	I need 2.5/2.6 because I would like to officially &
unofficially encourage users at the hospital where I work to use PGP.
I could not do that when there were possible patent violations hanging
over it.  With new versions without the legal cloud, I will be able to
use PGP for buisness as well as personal use.  I consider that to be a
major enough win that I was in the process of trying to get several
thousand dollars authorized to pay Viacrypt for a 'lab-wide' license
that would have covered all the machines I manage.  With 2.5
available, we can spend that money on some disks.  :)


Adam

-- 
Adam Shostack 				       adam@bwh.harvard.edu

Politics.  From the greek "poly," meaning many, and ticks, a small,
annoying bloodsucker.






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