From: Mark Aldrich <maldrich@grctechs.va.grci.com>
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 1996 08:00:18 +0800
To: Alan Olsen <alano@teleport.com>
Subject: Re: ViaCrypt PGP 4.0 for Windows shipping
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On Tue, 26 Mar 1996, Alan Olsen wrote:

> ViaCrypt is claiming that they are now shipping the Windows version of their
> PGP 4.0.  (I tend to not believe marketing claims until I hear from people
> who actually have it.)

Note that ViaCrypt is now using its own version numbers.  PGP 4.0 is 
really the same crypto engine as in 2.7.1, but with some new features.

> 
> Does anyone know if there are plans for this version to be interoperable
> with PGP 3.0?
> 

I asked about that, but the answer was indefinite.  I'd say "no."


> Furthermore, has anyone tried the new version?

Yes.  We were one of the beta sites for it.  There are actually two new 
versions of ViaCrypt PGP 4.0:  A business edition and a personal 
edition.  Essentially, there's a bunch more key management features and 
some new windows features.  In the business edition, you can configure it 
so that keys are essentially "escrowed" in that it will always add "the 
company" to the list of recipients.  Thus, your company can read your 
traffic if they want to.  This was at the request of many businesses who 
stated that they wanted to use PGP, but that they needed some means of 
escrowing the keys.

What's really interesting is what ViaCrypt has planned for even later 
releases: support for DSS (and SHA), DES, triple DES, multiple key rings, 
PC Card token support, provision for large key certificate databases, 
integration with X.509 structures, and a high performance single pass 
mode of operation.  

ViaCrypt put up some marketing stuff on their web page.  Try:
http://www.viacrypt.com/

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> Alan Olsen -- alano@teleport.com -- Contract Web Design & Instruction
>         `finger -l alano@teleport.com` for PGP 2.6.2 key 
>                 http://www.teleport.com/~alano/ 
>   "We had to destroy the Internet in order to save it." - Sen. Exon
> 
> 

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