--- begin forwarded text User-Agent: Microsoft-Outlook-Express-Macintosh-Edition/5.02.2022 Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2000 11:06:43 -0400 Subject: Update: Zero-Knowledge Freedom for Mac From: Mark Scott <mark@zeroknowledge.com> To: <mac-crypto@vmeng.com> Sender: <mac-crypto@vmeng.com> Hello mac-crypto list, The following is a message I sent to our Freedom beta and "notify of release" list. It provides updated information on the development of Freedom for the Mac. Thanks for your support. ---- First of all thank you for your patience. If you are following Internet privacy in the news you have probably been reading a lot about us lately. We have been getting five star reviews in the PC world/Mag publications, as well as rave reviews from main stream media, including the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, ABC News and many others. In the coming 5-10 days we will release our Freedom 2.0 beta for Windows 95/98/2000/ME and Linux. The reason that the Linux version of Freedom is available before the Mac version is because of the amount of common code between the two platforms. Regrettably this was not the case for the Mac version. This does not mean that we are in anyway less committed, it just means that the Mac version is a greater challenge to develop from the ground up. Having just completed meetings with our Mac development team I can tell you the following: We expect to have a Mac version of Freedom for MacWorld Expo January 2001. At this time we expect this version will support OS 8.6 - 9. We expect the OS X support to follow shortly after, at this point I can't define how quickly. Because of the inherent complexities of writing code for the first release of a product in a different platform, I cannot at this point say if this will be a technology demonstration, alpha, or beta. You may rest assured however, that we are putting all our efforts in developing the Mac version as quickly as we possibly can. I am planning at participating at Macworld in January, and I look forward to meeting any of you who wish to drop by and say hello, and of course see Freedom! I will keep you informed on details as we approach Macworld. I will continue to keep you up to date, and I appreciate all the feedback I have received from Mac users from around the world. We continue to collect beta tester names, and feel free to send this link to your friends and encourage them to sign up. http://www.freedom.net/download/mac.html#betatesters If any of you have further questions or comments, please do not hesitate to contact me. Best regards -- Mark Scott Product Manager/Evangelist, Macintosh & Linux Solutions Zero-Knowledge Systems Inc. 888 Blvd. de Maisonneuve East. 6th Floor Montreal, Quebec H2L 4S8 514-286-2636 ext. 2075 mark@zeroknowledge.com http://www.zeroknowledge.com PGP Fingerprint: B7D6 B1E7 92A1 022F 89DE 7CCF 4CA0 5329 41D4 235B --- end forwarded text -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah@ibuc.com> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'