M. Stirner:
Only one question: WHY? If PGP is freeware for noncommercial single users, why on earth would anyone wish to drop $100 +/- for single-user rights to a virtually identical program?
There are several business proposals floating around the cypherpunks community that would require commercial licenses. I encourage the various crypto-entrepreneurs elaborate if they wish. Some of the proposals are quite interesting and illuminating. There's a strong habit of keeping business ideas "trade secret", which can be a bad idea, since (a) many of the ideas are obvious; trade secrets only work for subtle but important technological bottlenecks known to a small group of mutually trustworthy people, and (b) many of the ideas need to debugged by a wide variety of crackers and experts before they will provid good privacy. Trade secrets also inhibit the progress of the cypherpunks agenda, but that's a judgement call; I myself dont' feel morally bound to Reveal All for the sake of the Movement. But, "I'll post mine if you post yours". Nick Szabo szabo@netcom.com