[13744] in Cypherpunks
Re: PGP 2.5 Beta Release Over, PGP 2.6 to be released next week
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry E. Metzger)
Mon May 16 15:02:02 1994
To: paul@hawksbill.sprintmrn.com (Paul Ferguson)
Cc: jis@MIT.EDU (Jeffrey I. Schiller), cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 16 May 1994 14:52:20 CDT."
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Reply-To: perry@imsi.com
Date: Mon, 16 May 1994 14:56:06 -0400
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@imsi.com>
Paul Ferguson says:
> > 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.
Besides, since 2.5 is legal, and doesn't have this "feature", and can
be fixed by people at will, I suspect that no one will see any reason
to use 2.6...
Perry
