On Thu, 7 Nov 1996, William H. Geiger III wrote:
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
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
PGP Inc. (http://www.pgp.com/) is now marketing Viacrypt PGP. There are two packages, Viacrypt PGP Personal Edition which is PGP, like we all know and love. PE also is available as DOS, MS-Windows, Mac, and UNIX. So Viacrypt PGP/PE for DOS should feel similar if not identical to MIT's PGP, though I haven't tested it yet. You could license IDEA single-license and license RSAREF for commerical usage (http://www.consensus.com/ or JonathanZ@consensus.com), but why bother? They also have a Business Edition which supports key escrowing, not some US government backdoor, but a 'master key' for businesses to recover encrypted information if an employee forgets a passphase (which they do), dies (which they do, if the information is very important), is on vacation (sometimes it happens), etc. In a commerical environment, key escrowing is for data recovery, not for spying on employees. If you want to use your employer's email system for your personal email, then use a personal public key. -Michael