[13742] in Cypherpunks
Re: PGP 2.5 Beta Release Over, PGP 2.6 to be released next week
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Ferguson)
Mon May 16 14:57:12 1994
From: paul@hawksbill.sprintmrn.com (Paul Ferguson)
To: jis@MIT.EDU (Jeffrey I. Schiller)
Date: Mon, 16 May 1994 14:52:20 -0500 (EST)
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <9405161804.AA08573@big-screw> from "Jeffrey I. Schiller" at May 16, 94 02:04:01 pm
>
> 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.
>
I suppose that it (also) will not allow upgrade inclusion of a secret
key created with these previous versions? If not, I can't imagine
many folks will be rushing to upgrade to 2.6.
- paul
