In <1.5.4.32.19961107072438.00dad0cc@popd.ix.netcom.com>, on 11/06/96 at 11:24 PM, stewarts@ix.netcom.com 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? -- ----------------------------------------------------------- William H. Geiger III http://www.amaranth.com/~whgiii Geiger Consulting WebExplorer & Java Enhanced!!! Cooking With Warp 4.0 Author of PGPMR2 - PGP Front End for MR/2 Ice Look for MR/2 Tips & Rexx Scripts Get Work Place Shell for Windows!! PGP & MR/2 the only way for secure e-mail. Finger whgiii@amaranth.com for PGP Key and other info ----------------------------------------------------------- *MR/2 ICE: The best way to accelerate Windows is at escape velocity.