[13743] in Cypherpunks
Re: PGP 2.5 Beta Release Over, PGP 2.6 to be released next week
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adam Shostack)
Mon May 16 14:58:13 1994
From: Adam Shostack <adam@bwh.harvard.edu>
To: snyderra@dunx1.ocs.drexel.edu (Bob Snyder)
Date: Mon, 16 May 94 14:52:41 EDT
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <199405161832.OAA05357@dunx1.ocs.drexel.edu>; from "Bob Snyder" at May 16, 94 2:32 pm
You wrote:
| Jeffrey I. Schiller scribbles:
| > 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.
|
| So how long do you think it'll take after the release of 2.6 for
| patches that disable this "feature" to come out?
|
| And what about ViaCrypt's PGP 2.4?
Well, clearly, 2.6 will have some very bright AI features, so
that it will talk to people who'se Key-ID's identify them as being
outside of the US, as their versions of PGP are perfectly legal.
And 2.4 is legal, if the 2.6 code doesn't recognize that,
well, then that code is buggy & will need to be fixed. :)
Adam
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