I just wrote:
commercial, but at this point my understanding is that Derek Atkins is employed by SGI, and Colin Plumb by PGP Inc.
As someone just pointed out, Derek works at Sun. (I thought I heard SGI chipped in too).
No mention of pgp3 on www.pgp.com, mit; a web search reveals nothing.
An altavista serach found an Internet Draft entitled `PGP Message Exchange Formats', however this appears to be a re-write of pgformat.txt which is distributed with PGP, with some comments explaining expansion directions. eg : The public-key-encryption algorithm is specified by the public-key : cryptosystem (PKC) number of field (f). The following PKC numbers are : currently defined: : : 1 - RSA : 255 - experimental : : More PKC numbers may be defined in the future. An implementation : need not support every PKC number. The implementor must document the : PKC numbers understood by an implementation. The only explicit mention of pgp 3.0 I saw in this document was this somewhat out of date comment: : A new release of PGP, known as PGP 3.0, is anticipated in 1995. To : the maximum extent possible, this version will be upwardly compatible : with version 2.x. At a minimum, PGP 3.0 will be able to read messages : and signatures produced by version 2.x. Someone suggested to me that Derek posted a draft spec for PGP 3.0. Anyone know of the whereabouts of this document. WWW searches aren't turning anything up for me, other than this: : To: cypherpunks@toad.com : From: frantz@netcom.com (Bill Frantz) : Date: Fri, 26 Jul 1996 15:55:38 -0700 : Subject: Usenet Conference on Security : : Just a few of the highlights: : : (1) Ron Rivest speaking on SDSI : [...] : (7) Derek Atkins' description of the PGP Library API. Adam -- print pack"C*",split/\D+/,`echo "16iII*o\U@{$/=$z;[(pop,pop,unpack"H*",<> )]}\EsMsKsN0[lN*1lK[d2%Sa2/d0<X+d*lMLa^*lN%0]dsXx++lMlN/dsM0<J]dsJxp"|dc`