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Re: Is there a Win PGP?
On Thu, 7 Nov 1996, William H. Geiger III wrote:
> 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
>
> Does anyone know if you can purchace a commercial license from ViaCrypt/PGP Inc. but
> use the standard PGP for commercial purposes?
>
> William H. Geiger III http://www.amaranth.com/~whgiii
PGP Inc. (http://www.pgp.com/) is now marketing Viacrypt PGP.
There are two packages, Viacrypt PGP Personal Edition which is PGP, like we
all know and love. PE also is available as DOS, MS-Windows, Mac, and UNIX. So
Viacrypt PGP/PE for DOS should feel similar if not identical to MIT's PGP,
though I haven't tested it yet.
You could license IDEA single-license and license RSAREF for commerical
usage (http://www.consensus.com/ or [email protected]), but why
bother?
They also have a Business Edition which supports key escrowing, not some
US government backdoor, but a 'master key' for businesses to recover
encrypted information if an employee forgets a passphase (which they do),
dies (which they do, if the information is very important), is on
vacation (sometimes it happens), etc.
In a commerical environment, key escrowing is for data recovery, not for
spying on employees. If you want to use your employer's email system for
your personal email, then use a personal public key.
-Michael