[13740] in Cypherpunks
Re: PGP 2.5 Beta Release Over, PGP 2.6 to be released next week
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sandy Sandfort)
Mon May 16 14:40:15 1994
Date: Mon, 16 May 1994 11:29:32 -0700 (PDT)
From: Sandy Sandfort <sandfort@crl.com>
To: "Jeffrey I. Schiller" <jis@MIT.EDU>
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <9405161804.AA08573@big-screw>
Jeffrey Schiller and C'punks,
On Mon, 16 May 1994, Jeffrey I. Schiller wrote:
> . . .
> In order to fully protect RSADSI's intellectual property rights in
> public-key technology, PGP 2.6 will be designed so that the messages it
> creates after September 1, 1994 will be unreadable by earlier versions
> of PGP that infringe patents licensed exclusively to Public Key Partners
> by MIT and Stanford University. PGP 2.6 will continue to be able to read
> messages generated by those earlier versions.
> . . .
Does this intentional non-interoperability include ViaCrypt PGP?
S a n d y
