[13090] in Cypherpunks
Re: Server clusterfuck
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Barrett)
Thu May 5 04:01:10 1994
Date: Thu, 5 May 1994 09:55:13 +0200 (GMT+0200)
From: Alan Barrett <barrett@daisy.ee.und.ac.za>
To: Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <199405050723.DAA10301@charon.MIT.EDU>
> As I said, I do know that the limitation son the keyserver were part
> of the bargain to get a legal non-infringing freeware version of
> PGP... Take that any way you want.
Let's see if I understand this correctly. There is some deal, between
parties as yet unnamed, but presumably including PKP/RSADSI as one of
the parties. This deal licences RSAREF for use in a new version of PGP,
and requires one particular keyserver to be crippled in such a way that
it ceases to accept keys that appear to have been created by certain
versions of PGP. Right? I wonder what advantage PKP/RSADSI sees in
crippling this one keyserver, since everybody can simply continue to use
non crippled keyservers.
--apb (Alan Barrett)
