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1994-05-16 - Re: PGP 2.5 Beta Release Over, PGP 2.6 to be released next week

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From: Adam Shostack <adam@bwh.harvard.edu>
To: snyderra@dunx1.ocs.drexel.edu (Bob Snyder)
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UTC Datetime: 1994-05-16 18:53:45 UTC
Raw Date: Mon, 16 May 94 11:53:45 PDT

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From: Adam Shostack <adam@bwh.harvard.edu>
Date: Mon, 16 May 94 11:53:45 PDT
To: snyderra@dunx1.ocs.drexel.edu (Bob Snyder)
Subject: Re: PGP 2.5 Beta Release Over, PGP 2.6 to be released next week
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You wrote:

| Jeffrey I. Schiller scribbles:

| > 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.
| 
| So how long do you think it'll take after the release of 2.6 for
| patches that disable this "feature" to come out?
| 
| And what about ViaCrypt's PGP 2.4?

	Well, clearly, 2.6 will have some very bright AI features, so
that it will talk to people who'se Key-ID's identify them as being
outside of the US, as their versions of PGP are perfectly legal.

	And 2.4 is legal, if the 2.6 code doesn't recognize that,
well, then that code is buggy & will need to be fixed.  :)

Adam

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