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Re: Is there a Win PGP?
In <[email protected]>, on 11/06/96 at 11:24 PM,
[email protected] said:
>For commercial applications,
>you probably also need ViaCrypt anyway. It was a nice product before they added Key
>Escrow support. Now that Phil has bought them, they'll presumably return to
>political correctness on that issue.
Hmmm I don't think they actually had a Key Escrow Support. My understanding was that
the user could create a master key that could be used to decrypt messages from the
other keys. This was done in responce to the needs of some of their corprate users
that needed a way to decrypt company info. It could be quite devistating if a vip for
company x encrypted vital corporate files and then quit/fired/died and those file
were nolonger able to be retreived.
I am not sure exactly how they had this mechanism set up but I am pretty sure this
was somthing the user had to actively set up as aposed to somthing done automatically
with out the user's knowledge.
I can see how this could be abused though for a GAK system though I never did see
anything from ViaCrypt that they supported any of the Clipper/GAK crap from our
government.
Does anyone know if you can purchace a commercial license from ViaCrypt/PGP Inc. but
use the standard PGP for commercial purposes?
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