[818] in WWW Security List Archive
Re: some questions about SHTTP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marc VanHeyningen)
Fri Aug 4 17:04:19 1995
From: marcvh@spry.com (Marc VanHeyningen)
To: Sarah Green <greens@hsvaic.hv.boeing.com>
cc: www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 04 Aug 1995 07:15:32 CDT."
<Pine.SOL.3.91.950804064649.9888B-100000@hsvaic>
Date: Fri, 04 Aug 1995 09:38:19 -0700
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
Sarah Green said:
> Can someone explain "PGP is not available inside the U.S. for
> commercial use under reasonable terms"? I believe the terms are similar
> to Microsoft's terms for Word or Borland's for C++. Yes, it costs money
> but most software does. Based on the PGP keys in the various emails, it
> appears that a lot of people inside & outside the US are using PGP.
OK, suppose one wants to ship a secure WWW client that has PGP support, and
we want to do it using the existing commercial version of PGP from ViaCrypt.
The going price for commercially licensed WWW clients varies, but is no
higher than about $40 and ours is closer to about $10. How much will that
price have to go up for including PGP support, and how does that compare with
the price increase involved with including something else, like RSA's security
libraries?
- Marc
