-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Subject: Re: Text of MIT PGP Announcement
PGP 2.5 strictly conforms to the conditions of the RSAREF 2.0 license of March 16, 1994.
Hmm... This version of the RSAREF 2.0 licence agreement did not have the definition of published interface that was included in later versions. (e.g. April 15, 1994) In particular, if you interpret "published interface" to be "all the routines one can call from an unmodified version of RSAREF 2.0", you would probably be able to build a version of PGP based on these. Here are some extracts from the March 16 1994 licence agreement
d. Prior permission from RSA in writing is required for any modifications that access the Program through ways other than the published Program interface or for modifications to the Program interface. RSA will grant all reasonable requests for permission to make such modifications. ... 7. RSAREF is a non-commercial publication of cryptographic techniques.
My bet is that this involves some legal funny stuff with this version of the licence agreement. Another possibility is that PGP 2.5 will use triple DES. All just speculation. I don't have any inside information. Mark -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.4 iQBVAgUBLcljyWrJdmD9QWqxAQG4ywIAnXtDP6aKPP5VGtPuKxOiSWiKryP7qeHJ 7jfMkXC9QQJttzujStPXNl8UlDFf7CErfeNHleo+CCtOCOpqiz76SA== =aHYn -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Mark Henderson markh@wimsey.bc.ca - RIPEM MD5: F1F5F0C3984CBEAF3889ADAFA2437433 ViaCrypt PGP key fingerprint: 21 F6 AF 2B 6A 8A 0B E1 A1 2A 2A 06 4A D5 92 46 low security key fingerprint: EC E7 C3 A9 2C 30 25 C6 F9 E1 25 F3 F5 AF 92 E3 cryptography archive maintainer -- anon ftp to ftp.wimsey.bc.ca:/pub/crypto