Is it legal for commercial companies to use PGP?
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- jgrubs@voxbox.norden1.com (Jim Grubs, W8GRT) writes:
As I recall, the following is a correct scenario: a customer can use PGP to send credit card numbers to a vendor he's making a personal purchase from, but the vendor must use Viacrypt. If the customer is buying something to use for business, BOTH must use Viacrypt.
In practice, I'd probably buy Viacrypt for legal reasons but use PGP anyway. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 Comment: http://norden1.com/~jim/sylvania.html iQCVAwUBMAu5iN74r4kaz3mVAQF11QQAiNccy69sb5OA1jmOpErqqZNJ4sNx3smW tAJQ3lD1op4qlPIO48vxwkvr+IaQyyOkf797+9Ca1z9WtxgwSamo32BQnPQZ6Pbm Vipmpwrabrxq67TOrGgxNp3UN7oBZl3eyad0hIj6ENzs8u1wi3wkHUV/3z341XB7 u953orkOZSk= =UYrt -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- WebCasters(tm) James C. Grubs jgrubs@voxbox.norden1.com 6817 Maplewood Avenue Tel.: 419-882-2697 Sylvania, Oh 43560 Fax: 419-885-2814 Internet consulting, HTML programing, Information brokering
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- From: "Jim Grubs, W8GRT" <jgrubs@voxbox.norden1.com> Date: Tue, 18 Jul 95 09:36:51 EDT In practice, I'd probably buy Viacrypt for legal reasons but use PGP anyway. I'd be interesting in hearing some of the lawyers out there comment on this. While I know that I can test interoperability, I prefer using something that I compiled myself which I think is not an option with Viacrypt. This is not to say that I could swear that I understand all of the code that I compiled for the free versions of PGP, but (a) I have spent considerable time looking at the parts that were most interesting to me -- even translating some things to other programming languages and (b) I know that others have also examined the code and nobody has come up with anything terribly damning. Rick -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBMAxDnpNR+/jb2ZlNAQGSWgP/QpeKiOTHFo9x9OMqHyO0iyUoF0RPkZL3 iRnIWNNKCdRWPw4jc6j0m3toG7mnvBt5v/jK122nrbeZBbzEpxGgovA2imOKeD9e r09irO0Yo7G/T12yXgHOoaJ+69OPUhQFIUnPJGAJ2o5uEaLzRUlfDcsHQYtcx6sT aRCR9NsbDMM= =JsSF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Rick Busdiecker Please do not send electronic junk mail! net: rfb@lehman.com or rfb@cmu.edu PGP Public Key: 0xDBD9994D www: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/rfb/http/home.html send mail, subject "send index" for mailbot info, "send pgp key" gets my key
Rick Busdiecker <rfb@lehman.com> writes: From: "Jim Grubs, W8GRT" <jgrubs@voxbox.norden1.com>
In practice, I'd probably buy Viacrypt for legal reasons but use PGP anyway.
I'd be interesting in hearing some of the lawyers out there comment on this.
Does RSADSI count as having lawyers? So far as I know they have not commented in public about whether the ViaCrypt license is valid, but they have also not (to my knowledge) contested it. However, Jim Bidzos has explicitly said that it is not acceptable to buy a ViaCrypt license to cover your use of non-ViaCrypt PGP. Jim Gillogly Hevensday, 25 Afterlithe S.R. 1995, 23:53
Rick Busdiecker <rfb@lehman.com> writes: From: "Jim Grubs, W8GRT" <jgrubs@voxbox.norden1.com>
In practice, I'd probably buy Viacrypt for legal reasons but use PGP anyway.
I'd be interesting in hearing some of the lawyers out there comment on this.
Does RSADSI count as having lawyers? So far as I know they have not commented in public about whether the ViaCrypt license is valid, but they have also not (to my knowledge) contested it. However, Jim Bidzos has explicitly said that it is not acceptable to buy a ViaCrypt license to cover your use of non-ViaCrypt PGP.
Jim Gillogly Hevensday, 25 Afterlithe S.R. 1995, 23:53
IANAL, but I find this position to be stretching the limits of credible grounds for a successful lawsuit. My reasoning is that most (all?) patent and copyright lawsuits are based on theft of services or other forms of lost income. If you collected a fee for a usage that was identical in function to one that actually took place, (or even close) I don't see how you could argue that any income was lost. Technically he can decide what to allow as the license 'owner'/controller, but that's different from having standing to sue. sdw -- Stephen D. Williams 25Feb1965 VW,OH (FBI ID) sdw@lig.net http://www.lig.net/sdw Consultant, Vienna,VA Mar95- 703-918-1491W 43392 Wayside Cir.,Ashburn, VA 22011 OO/Unix/Comm/NN ICBM/GPS: 39 02 37N, 77 29 16W home, 38 54 04N, 77 15 56W Pres.: Concinnous Consulting,Inc.;SDW Systems;Local Internet Gateway Co.;28May95
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