[73] in Cypherpunks
Re: Tough Choices: PGP vs. RSA Data Security
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry E. Metzger)
Fri Apr 30 07:00:59 1993
To: tcmay@netcom.com (Timothy C. May)
Cc: Cypherpunks@toad.com, jim@rsa.com
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 29 Apr 1993 01:36:34 PDT."
Reply-To: pmetzger@lehman.com
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1993 12:34:08 -0400
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <pmetzger@lehman.com>
[I am CCing this to Jim Bidzos at RSA.]
Timothy C. May says:
> Cypherpatriots,
>
> This is a tough posting to write. I may even be called a quisling, or even
> a sternlight!
Actually, I do not disagree with your fundamental points. Jim Bidzos
is not, fundamentally, an enemy of privacy. He's just in a difficult
position because his livelyhood comes from selling patent licenses.
If a program existed that was legal and freely distributed like RIPEM
but ran as fast as PGP and offered the "web of trust" model of PGP,
I'd use it immediately.
Perry
