From owner-cypherpunks@toad.com Sat Aug 27 22:08 PDT 1994 Received: from relay2.UU.NET (relay2.UU.NET [192.48.96.7]) by ar.com (8.6.9/8.6.5) with ESMTP id WAA01459 for <wessorh@ar.com>; Sat, 27 Aug 1994 22:08:22 -0700 Received: from toad.com by relay2.UU.NET with SMTP id QQxewa21172; Sun, 28 Aug 1994 01:07:36 -0400 Received: by toad.com id AA01260; Sat, 27 Aug 94 21:59:17 PDT Received: from nic.cerf.net by toad.com id AA01254; Sat, 27 Aug 94 21:59:07 PDT Received: from ininx (ininx.com [134.24.4.70]) by nic.cerf.net (8.6.8/8.6.6) with SMTP id VAA26020; Sat, 27 Aug 1994 21:59:00 -0700 Received: by ininx (4.0/SMI-4.0) id AA05474; Sat, 27 Aug 94 20:42:04 PDT Date: Sat, 27 Aug 94 20:42:04 PDT From: jkreznar@ininx.com (John E. Kreznar) To: perobich@ingr.com Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com Subject: Re: Are RSA licenses fungible? Sender: owner-cypherpunks@toad.com Content-Type: text Content-Length: 2530
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JEK: Is this true even if the person is a registered buyer of 2.7?
Public availability of a program's source code is a powerful means to be sure that it is correct. How can one gain such assurance for PGP 2.7?
How could confidence in the correctness of a secret program, even by its author, ever match that of a program open to public scrutiny by any interested person?
Uhlhorn: ViaCrypt has exactly the same position if a person were to make 2.6ui look like ViaCrypt PGP V2.7 regardless of whether or not they are a registered user of ViaCrypt PGP V2.7. It is plain dishonest and illegal!
[End of Uhlhorn dialogue]
Granted, the issue here is different from yours, but it does give an idea of how ViaCrypt might react to an attempt to use their license to legitimize your use of another PGP. Hope this helps.
John E. Kreznar | Relations among people to be by jkreznar@ininx.com | mutual consent, or not at all.
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why don't you just buy an RSA toolkit licence and patch it inro whatever you want, just don't redestribute code... -Rick