From: "William H. Geiger III" <whgiii@amaranth.com>
Date: Thu, 7 Nov 1996 03:16:12 -0800 (PST)
To: stewarts@ix.netcom.com
Subject: Re: Is there a Win PGP?
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In <1.5.4.32.19961107072438.00dad0cc@popd.ix.netcom.com>, on 11/06/96 at 11:24 PM,
   stewarts@ix.netcom.com said:

>For commercial applications,
>you probably also need ViaCrypt anyway.  It was a nice product before they added Key
>Escrow support.  Now that Phil has bought them, they'll presumably return to
>political correctness on that issue.

Hmmm I don't think they actually had a Key Escrow Support. My understanding was that
the user could create a master key that could be used to decrypt messages from the
other keys. This was done in responce to the needs of some of their corprate users
that needed a way to decrypt company info. It could be quite devistating if a vip for
company x encrypted vital corporate files and then quit/fired/died and those file
were nolonger able to be retreived.

I am not sure exactly how they had this mechanism set up but I am pretty sure this
was somthing the user had to actively set up as aposed to somthing done automatically
with out the user's knowledge. 

I can see how this could be abused though for a GAK system though I never did see
anything from ViaCrypt that they supported any of the Clipper/GAK crap from our
government.

Does anyone know if you can purchace a commercial license from ViaCrypt/PGP Inc. but
use the standard PGP for commercial purposes?

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