On 14 Jan, Hal wrote:
PGP is gradually disappearing from U.S. sites where it used to be available. Recently it got taken off the EFF area on Compuserve. We can't afford to see encryption and remailers be slowly strangled.
I agree that this would be terrible. Do you have any grounding for this generalized statement? I can understand CI$ backing off, as they were the only organization in the US making a profit from PGP. And they have the resources and assetts that could be a target if PKP wanted a test case. I just had archie look arround, and to me the number of places was about the same. For some reason, archie doesn't find it in two places I know it is: soda.berkeley.edu and phil.utmb.edu Archie did report that it is on wuarchive. I'm affraid that the legal cloud will remain over PGP for quite some time, and that the flawed PEM implementations will become the standard. Until there is someone with real assetts using PGP, PKP's lawyers will not bother to expose their patent to the possibility of being invalidated. I also don't expect to see those of us who are assett free changing from PGP to RIPEM/PEM just because it is free of the cloud. This cloud will make folks who are nervous about the changes that netwroks, communications, and encryption will bring more cautious. I expect that PGP will continue to move from site to site. Which is why archie and gopher are so important to all of us. Pat Pat Farrell, Grad Student pfarrell@cs.gmu.edu Department of Computer Science, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA PGP key available via finger or request #include standard.disclaimer