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

To: [email protected] (Paul Ferguson)
Subject: Re: PGP 2.5 Beta Release Over, PGP 2.6 to be released next week
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 16 May 1994 14:56:06 -0400
Cc: [email protected] (Jeffrey I. Schiller), [email protected]
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 16 May 1994 14:52:20 CDT." <[email protected]>
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Paul Ferguson says:
> > 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.

Besides, since 2.5 is legal, and doesn't have this "feature", and can
be fixed by people at will, I suspect that no one will see any reason
to use 2.6...

Perry

References:
- Re: PGP 2.5 Beta Release Over, PGP 2.6 to be released next week
  - From: [email protected] (Paul Ferguson)

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