-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Derek Atkins writes:

[about Sternlight...]

...

He campaigns tirelessly, endlessly, and repetitiously against PGP, and against crypto for the masses.

Actually, this should be "about PGP [possibly] infringing on patents".. He made a PGP key, but when the patent issues came up, he destroyed everything. Now that 2.6 is out and santified by all parties concerned, he has created a new key, which is on the keyservers!

Derek's list is incomplete; Sternlight also alleged that there were "copyright problems" with PGP, insinuating that some of the code in PGP had been copied (or derived from) RSAREF code - he backed down pretty quickly when asked for substantiation. He also wrote to the administrators of US-based FTP sites, suggesting that PKP/RSADSI was contemplating legal action against them if they didn't stop making PGP available via FTP. I suspect (but cannot prove) that he was also the person who reported those FTP sites to Bidzos, thus creating the lawsuit threat that he then pretended to protect the FTP sites from. He also recently wrote to Netcom administrators, encouraging them to take action against a user who included a public key marked 2.3a in his .plan file. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.5 iQCVAgUBLfN7yX3YhjZY3fMNAQEUPQP9EZHEiYMAO4Z3ZuRJ/YgThX6CCNlqARic hFVgZX9kU2xfbKeJsJfBAXJvQDCbq7AOK6uuWIF+2VTb9gt7WcYe4nZiRoWe77v+ /QAYbuefLTGMjhneQ43ZFU3HIYDvzkZBmeZk0jtSzdWafhflnRxaBlFjzAjx1WTS +8uE9isIqAo= =V+Ix -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----