From: Richard Martin ( frodo ) <g4frodo@cdf.toronto.edu>
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 94 17:18:45 PST
To: "L. McCarthy" <lmccarth@ducie.cs.umass.edu>
Subject: Re: Hal Finney & Bob Rae and Ontario's Parliament
In-Reply-To: <199412120739.CAA03309@bb.hks.net>
Message-ID: <94Dec12.201828edt.1041@marvin.cdf.toronto.edu>
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In message <199412120739.CAA03309@bb.hks.net>, "L. McCarthy" writes:
>Is this true ?
Probably not. In my reply to a query about it, I recommended the
use of Viacrypt, mainly because of legal concerns, and partly because
of the prospects of printed documentation (I like manuals I can burn
when I'm done with them), user support, and so on. (Bluntly, I'm
currently having to drop all the way out to DOS to sign things
right now, and I don't think the Premier's office would be too wild
about such a prospect. They're probably all Windows people, so they'll
run the Windows version, if they use it at all.
   Bob Rae is the premier of Ontario, not the prime minister (though
in French, he would be "le premier ministre" of Ontario). Oh. What
is cypherpunks thought on having two Rae keys? Many business people
have photocopied signatures (or digitized) for relatively unimportant
mailings... Can a key be shared among the premier and his confidential
secretary, say, with another for legal matters and a third for private
communications?
>According to the PGP 2.6.1 User's Guide:
>"The freeware version of PGP is only for personal, non-commercial use -- all
>other users in the USA and Canada must obtain a fully licensed version of PGP
>from ViaCrypt. [...] If you have a need to use PGP in a commercial or
>Government setting, and ViaCrypt has a version of PGP for your hardware
>platform, you should get ViaCrypt PGP."

Mea culpa. I was thrown by the US government's free use of it (I think
they get that, don't they?). On a silly note, my government is not
currently making money, and could hardly be classified as being in
business. ;)

frodo
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Richard Martin    ChemPhysCompSci 9T7+PEY = 9T8   g4frodo@cdf.toronto.edu
Trinity College University of Toronto SVW92 martinrd@gpu.utcc.toronto.edu
My opinions, when not poached. (or fried) frodo@uhura.trinity.toronto.edu

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