[77] in Cypherpunks
Re: Tough Choices: PGP vs. RSA Data Security
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Theodore Ts'o)
Fri Apr 30 07:22:07 1993
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 93 11:33:28 EDT
From: tytso@Athena.MIT.EDU (Theodore Ts'o)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: Sy Verpunc's message of Wed, 28 Apr 93 14:36:04 GMT,
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 93 14:36:04 GMT
From: Sy Verpunc <svp@gtoal.com>
Reply-To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Thats what people have *always wanted* to do. RSA won't let them. That's
why any talk of a newer friendlier Bizdos is bullshit.
Have you actually tried?
Several people from RSA, including Bidzos at the last Cypherpunks
meeting at Mountain View (I wasn't there, but take a look at the meeting
"minutes"), have stated repeatedly that if someone were to ask for
permission to use the internal interfaces of RSAREF in order to write a
PGP-compatible program, they would grant permission.
However, as of two weeks ago, *NOT* *A* *SINGLE* *PERSON* *HAS* *ASKED*.
To those of you who have repeatedly said "Cypherpunks write code" (and I
applaud that attitude), consider this a challenge. :-)
- Ted
