From: Adam Shostack <adam@bwh.harvard.edu>
Date: Tue, 10 May 94 14:47:34 PDT
To: dwitkow@eis.calstate.edu (David T. Witkowski)
Subject: Re: away from my mail (fwd)
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| 'an FTP site at MIT' is rather vague.  Anyone have specifics?


| From owner-cypherpunks@toad.com  Mon May  9 14:02:29 1994
| Date: Mon, 9 May 94 09:32:39 -0400
| Message-Id: <9405091332.AA29405@big-screw>
| From: "Jeffrey I. Schiller" <jis@mit.edu>
| To: cypherpunks@toad.com
| Subject: MIT Announces PGP 2.5
| Sender: owner-cypherpunks@toad.com
| Precedence: bulk
|
|                Beta Test Release of PGP version 2.5
|                            May 9, 1994
|
| The Massachusetts Institute of Technology announces the distribution
| of PGP version 2.5, incorporating the RSAREF 2.0 cryptographic toolkit
| under license from RSA Data Security, Inc., dated March 16, 1994.  In
| accordance with the terms and limitations of the RSAREF 2.0 license of
| March 16, 1994, this version of PGP may be used for non-commercial
| purposes only.
|
| PGP 2.5 strictly conforms to the conditions of the RSAREF 2.0 license
| of March 16, 1994.  As permitted under its RSAREF license, MIT's
| distribution of PGP 2.5 includes an accompanying distribution of the
| March 16, 1994 release of RSAREF 2.0.  Users of PGP 2.5 are directed
| to consult the RSAREF 2.0 license included with the distribution to
| understand their obligations under that license.
|
| This distribution of PGP 2.5, available in source code form, is
| available only to users within the United States of America.  Use of
| PGP 2.5 (and the included RSAREF 2.0) may be subject to export
| control.  Questions concerning possible export restrictions on PGP 2.5
| (and RSAREF 2.0) should be directed to the U.S. State Department's
| Office of Defense Trade Controls.
|
| Users in the United States of America can obtain information via FTP
|
|
|
| from net-dist.mit.edu in the directory /pub/PGP.
|
|                                ***
|                  Beta Release Note -- May 7, 1994
|                                ***
|
| Today's release of PGP 2.5 is a beta test release, designed to permit
| users to familiarize themselves with the program and to give us
| feedback before we make the final release.
|
| This version of PGP2.5 has been tested on the following platforms:
|
|       MSDOS, Sun381i, Solaris 2.X, Ultrix 4.X, Linux, RS6000,
|       HP/UX
|
| Over the next few days, we will be testing PGP2.5 on a variety of
| other systems and collecting bug reports from this release.
|
| Please send bug reports to pgp-bugs@mit.edu.
|
| If you obtain a copy of this beta release code, please keep checking
| http://web.mit.edu for the announcement of the final release, so that
| you can update your copy of PGP2.5.  We expect the final release to
| occur within a week.
|
| *** To Get PGP2.5: The directory where PGP2.5 is located is hidden.
| To get it you need to telnet to "net-dist.mit.edu" and login as getpgp.
| You will be asked to confirm that you will abide by the terms and
| conditions of the 3/16/94 RSAREF 2.0 license. The license is in
| the file "license.txt" in /pub/PGP on net-dist.mit.edu.
|