[13789] in Cypherpunks
Re: Fixing pgp 2.6
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Miller)
Mon May 16 22:13:43 1994
From: jim@bilbo.suite.com (Jim Miller)
Date: Mon, 16 May 94 21:06:32 -0500
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Reply-To: Jim_Miller@bilbo.suite.com
> I think we can expect strong legal pressure from RSA to
> shut down the remaining U.S. key servers, even those
> which don't use illegal versions of PGP. They succeeded
> once in shutting down the key servers which used PGP; they
> will succeed again in shutting down the others due to the
> contributory infringement threat.
>
ViaCrypt PGP 2.4 is perfectly legal in the U.S. U.S. operators can run
key servers that except only version 2.4 and higher keys. I don't think
RSA has a legal leg to stand on the U.S. key servers reject all keys with
a version number less than 2.4. <wink> <nudge>
Jim_Miller@suite.com
