[13072] in Cypherpunks
Re: Keyserver service outage
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eli Brandt)
Thu May 5 01:00:39 1994
To: cypherpunks list <cypherpunks@toad.com>
Date: Wed, 4 May 94 21:55:35 PDT
From: Eli Brandt <ebrandt@jarthur.cs.hmc.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Ihm7TvW00Vp2RWZ118@andrew.cmu.edu>; from "Matthew J Ghio" at May 5, 94 12:37 am
> Whoa... why not??? PGP 2.4 output is identical to 2.3a!
> Is PGP 2.5 somehow incompatible with 2.3a?
I imagine they've been facing political pressure and vague noises
about "contributory infringement", which have taken down a couple
of U.S. keyservers.
> Besides, if you take a PGP 2.3 key and change the version number to 2.4,
> the software can't tell the difference...
Gosh, nobody would do that.
> Anyway, PGP 2.5 is news to me... Does it have any new features? Limitations?
If this is the RSAREF-hacked PGP that people have been talking about,
it's like PGP 2.3 and 2.4 (modulo maintenance tweaks) but uses RSAREF
for its crypto. Thus it is entirely U.S.-legal.
I wonder what Sternlight will say to this.
Eli ebrandt@hmc.edu
"Users of PGP 2.5 should be aware that if copies are found outside
of the U.S. and Canada, they could be charged with contributing
to a conspiracy to export munitions to a foreign national."
