1994-05-16 - Re: PGP 2.5 Beta Release Over, PGP 2.6 to be released next week
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From: “Perry E. Metzger” <perry@imsi.com>
To: paul@hawksbill.sprintmrn.com (Paul Ferguson)
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Message ID: <9405161856.AA27870@snark.imsi.com>
Reply To: <9405161952.AA27828@hawksbill.sprintmrn.com>
UTC Datetime: 1994-05-16 18:56:27 UTC
Raw Date: Mon, 16 May 94 11:56:27 PDT
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From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@imsi.com>
Date: Mon, 16 May 94 11:56:27 PDT
To: paul@hawksbill.sprintmrn.com (Paul Ferguson)
Subject: Re: PGP 2.5 Beta Release Over, PGP 2.6 to be released next week
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Paul Ferguson says:
> > 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.
Besides, since 2.5 is legal, and doesn't have this "feature", and can
be fixed by people at will, I suspect that no one will see any reason
to use 2.6...
Perry
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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>