27 Aug
1993
27 Aug
'93
4:07 a.m.
The proper paranoid must worry whether the licenced PGP does what it is supposed to do. One can compare the output of the ViaCrypt PGP with that of the current version. Discrepencies would merit great suspicion and perhaps disassembly. Improper paranoids might be comforted in the knowledge that many proper paranoids were comparing the two versions. I have not studied the format of the PGP output. Is it possible for the ViaCrypt PGP to interoperate with the current version unless it comforms completely? We must clearly worry about undocumented new formats. Incedently why do the code owners trust the customer to not illegitamitely copy the binary program, but not trust the customer to not illegitamitely copy the source program?