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Re: PGP 2.5 Beta Release Over, PGP 2.6 to be released next week

To: [email protected] (Jeffrey I. Schiller)
Subject: Re: PGP 2.5 Beta Release Over, PGP 2.6 to be released next week
From: [email protected] (Paul Ferguson)
Date: Mon, 16 May 1994 14:52:20 -0500 (EST)
Cc: [email protected]
In-Reply-To: <9405161804.AA08573@big-screw> from "Jeffrey I. Schiller" at May 16, 94 02:04:01 pm
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> 
> In order  to   fully protect  RSADSI's intellectual  property  rights in
> public-key technology, PGP 2.6 will be designed so  that the messages it
> creates after September 1,  1994 will be  unreadable by earlier versions
> of PGP that infringe patents licensed exclusively to Public Key Partners
> by MIT and Stanford University. PGP 2.6 will continue to be able to read
> messages generated by those earlier versions.
>

I suppose that it (also) will not allow upgrade inclusion of a secret
key created with these previous versions? If not, I can't imagine 
many folks will be rushing to upgrade to 2.6.

- paul

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