cc: added to cypherpunks On Sat, Nov 14, 1998 at 03:42:26PM +0000, Ross Anderson wrote:
On his most recent speaking tour of Europe, at which he promoted PGP v 6, Phil Zimmermann assured us categorically that NAI had at his insistence withdrawn from the KRA.
It now appears that either (1) he lied to us (2) he was himself lied to by NAI management or (3) NAI has rejoined.
I assume you are refering to the meeting at Cambridge University that you chaired. My subjective impressions of that meeting were that PZ was certainly sincere. I seem to recall he told us that he was unware NAI had even orginally been a member of KRA until he was telephoned by a journalist in his car and was opposed to this. Presumably this was before NAI bought TIS and rejoined (?) I would add an option (4) PZ didn't know -- cockup not conspiracy But all this leads to a lack of confidence in the future of the PGP product, which is too precious to be left in the hands of one (American) company, whose policy is in doubt. I am not currently convinced by their actions that NAI are serious about strong crypto and I believe that a truly free and open version of PGP (GPG?) would be superior. -- 1024/D9C69DF9 steve mynott steve@tightrope.demon.co.uk http://www.pineal.com/ i would rather have my ignorance than another man's knowledge, because i have got so much more of it. -- mark twain