1994-05-16 - Re: PGP 2.5 Beta Release Over, PGP 2.6 to be released next week
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From: paul@hawksbill.sprintmrn.com (Paul Ferguson)
To: jis@mit.edu (Jeffrey I. Schiller)
Message Hash: 6f9e1aa31ad794347ee8ac02287ec2f0f910cdb5251d5ddf3f8f2e93f326790a
Message ID: <9405161952.AA27828@hawksbill.sprintmrn.com>
Reply To: <9405161804.AA08573@big-screw>
UTC Datetime: 1994-05-16 18:50:36 UTC
Raw Date: Mon, 16 May 94 11:50:36 PDT
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From: paul@hawksbill.sprintmrn.com (Paul Ferguson)
Date: Mon, 16 May 94 11:50:36 PDT
To: jis@mit.edu (Jeffrey I. Schiller)
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: <9405161952.AA27828@hawksbill.sprintmrn.com>
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>
> 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.
>
I suppose that it (also) will not allow upgrade inclusion of a secret
key created with these previous versions? If not, I can't imagine
many folks will be rushing to upgrade to 2.6.
- paul
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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>