Simon Trask writes:
A) No source code will be available, due to the nature of the agreement between PKP and ViaCrypt.
So we are supposed to trust it sight unseen? Why in the world would anyone buy an encryption program of questionable security --which any program for we can not get the source is-- when we can get a supposedy virtually identical program that we know is secure for free?
B) He is under 'a lot' of pressure to have a product 'on the shelves in under two months', and therefore the first release will be a MS-DOS version, then Macintosh, SVR4, SUN OS, and all of those unix versions, and that they will eventualy put out a windows product and start makeing improvements to the actual product.
I can't help but wonder if the guy is feeling other pressures besides time pressures. Just thinking. I don't think that ViaCrypt will make much money of the people on this list. --Marc