1994-05-16 - Re: PGP 2.5 Beta Release Over, PGP 2.6 to be released next week
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From: Alan Barrett <barrett@daisy.ee.und.ac.za>
To: “Jeffrey I. Schiller” <jis@mit.edu>
Message Hash: 8b9c062e694f570c5f07cfd9405796c0552ea49feccadb21aabbe7f51597f9a2
Message ID: <Pine.3.89.9405162003.W248-0100000@newdaisy.ee.und.ac.za>
Reply To: <9405161804.AA08573@big-screw>
UTC Datetime: 1994-05-16 19:00:53 UTC
Raw Date: Mon, 16 May 94 12:00:53 PDT
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From: Alan Barrett <barrett@daisy.ee.und.ac.za>
Date: Mon, 16 May 94 12:00:53 PDT
To: "Jeffrey I. Schiller" <jis@mit.edu>
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: <Pine.3.89.9405162003.W248-0100000@newdaisy.ee.und.ac.za>
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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.
Are we ever going to be told the details of the deals previously alluded
to regarding keyservers and PGP 2.5 (and now presumably also PGP 2.6)?
I grow more and more curious.
If users inside the USA take to using PGP 2.6 then users outside the
USA will, by fair means or foul, have to obtain PGP 2.6 (or at least
enough technical data to enable them to independently implement the
relevant algorithms). Failing that, they will have to live with the
inability to read messages from PGP 2.6 users inside the USA. Sigh. I
wonder whether anybody is deliberately fostering a split between USA and
non-USA users of PGP.
--apb (Alan Barrett)
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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>