Jon Calis wrote:
Also, we have three encryption products: PGP freeware, PGP for Personal Privacy, and PGP for Business Security. Corporate Message Recovery is included *only* in PGP for Business Security. It is not, and never will be, in either the freeware or the Personal Privacy product.
If this is true (and I have no reason to believe it isn't), then why is the key escrow code written (although not turned on) in the source code for 5.0 that was posted internationally from PGP? Makes no sense. Bruce
http://simson.vineyard.net/clips/96.SJMN.PGPBusinessEdition.html .... PRETTY LOOSE PRIVACY [...] Published: April 2, 1996 BY SIMSON L. GARFINKEL .... That has not stopped Zimmermann from complaining loudly about the PGP name being used in a product that allows someone other than the author or the intended recipient access to information. Viacrypt owns the licensing rights to sell the commercial versions of PGP.
''PGP does not stand for back doors,'' said Zimmermann. ''I don't mind if they sell a program that has a back door in it, but they shouldn't call it PGP.'' [...] ''If your employer can read your mail anytime he wants, without your permission, that goes against the spirit of the PGP trademark,'' said Zimmermann.
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