[13286] in Cypherpunks
Re: Putting new PGP on company machines.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)
Fri May 6 18:56:48 1994
To: Andrew Purshottam <andy@autodesk.com>
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: Your message of Fri, 06 May 94 14:58:27 -0700.
<199405062158.OAA29578@meefun.autodesk.com>
Date: Fri, 06 May 94 18:50:11 EDT
From: Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>
> Has anyone asked the company shysters about the legal status of MIT-PGP?
> I'd really like to have and use pgp at work, but have hesitated about
> putting it our machines here, as we are so prim and proper (in public)
> about intellectual property.
Asked them what? When PGP 2.5 is released (what you call MIT-PGP), it
*WILL* be legal in the US. It will use RSAREF 2.0, so there will be
no question as to its legality in the US for non-commercial purposes.
-derek
