17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
Jeffrey I. Schiller scribbles:
In order to fully protect RSADSI's intellectual property rights in public-key technology, PGP 2.6 will be designed so that the messages it creates after September 1, 1994 will be unreadable by earlier versions of PGP that infringe patents licensed exclusively to Public Key Partners by MIT and Stanford University. PGP 2.6 will continue to be able to read messages generated by those earlier versions.
So how long do you think it'll take after the release of 2.6 for patches that disable this "feature" to come out? And what about ViaCrypt's PGP 2.4? Bob