-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- From: Lance Cottrell <loki@obscura.com> Date: 17 September 1995 Subject: Mixmaster Licensing Offer Explained Permission is granted to distribute this document in any media for any purpose as long as the entire document is distributed with the attached digital signature intact, or the document is clearly marked as having been modified with the locations of deleted text indicated. Several rumors have surfaced following my announcement of Mixmaster's changing status. I want to nip these worries in the bud. After discussion with the party interested in commercially licensing Mixmaster we have decided to explain the whole situation publicly. The company offering to license Mixmaster is Phoenix DataNet, a Houston area ISP. John Perry, a person well known to this list and the remailer community in general, is a Senior Systems Administrator at Phoenix. On Thursday I received a call from John. Some others at Phoenix had just noticed a Mixmaster remailer he had been running on one of their machines. Phoenix has several large corporate customers who need secure transactions for some special applications. The core engine of Mixmaster is well suited to that purpose. They offered to license the code from me to use as the framework on which to build these other programs. In the process they will rewrite many basic functions in Mixmaster that need major overhaul (e.g., key management). We will incorporate those improvements back into Mixmaster. This should lead to porting Mixmaster to several other platforms, and to fixing most of my worst coding atrocities. I had never considered licensing Mixmaster, but I know John Perry both personally and by reputation. He has thoroughly assuaged my fears that Phoenix would try to weaken or restrict Mixmaster in any way. John will be leading this project on the Phoenix end. He asked that I delay the release of the next version of Mixmaster pending clarification of every one's intentions. Now that we have reached an understanding the planned release of Mixmaster version 2.0.2 will take place as soon as I can get it ready. There are no plans to sell Mixmaster clients or servers. They will continue to be released free with source code. I will still control the contents of all releases of Mixmaster. All future versions of Mixmaster will be backward compatible. There will be no "Legal Kludges" preventing old clients from working with new remailers, and new clients will be able to generate old message formats. Currently there are no plans to change the message format at all. -Lance Cottrell -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQEVAwUBMFvVivPzr81BVjMVAQHzhgf/f9zM91/N0S/JljicjDpoGzQ6Pt4gZVy9 ar407vp6js7EJ7Kg2XHtni6FwowM066rbGrt8W/8ZoQJGBxgKkfSvhLpEL7E926M tn5QDEysVa1itzkvym2rQuNRIALfLOwzcYyLMdfjBtPMhRJkfwDthrrl9ocHkrSR WW1wPwBRj/t+LFl6ueXwN8ZYLJVmbIoLy7BcqbNzLWjqmB7jgN2toxVCRfM7qfkE DX1M/+hPddE6dT8ZgWdSt9dUvMQ7hu8BfHKCkcf0XWKmmeJ8jh+XDISvC7EFgIGT H5XjkLpA2Eg+qmYzKHDOQaQT9SfzSVs4Y9sTzMlbewBi3jna6Dz/Sw== =G2pZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Lance Cottrell loki@obscura.com PGP 2.6 key available by finger or server. Mixmaster, the next generation remailer, is now available! http://obscura.com/~loki/Welcome.html or FTP to obscura.com "Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra. Suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night the ice weasels come." --Nietzsche