PGP bought by McAfee
"Network Associates, Inc. (Nasdaq: NETA, commencing Dec. 2), formerly McAfee Associates (Nasdaq: MCAF), announced today that it has a signed a definitive agreement to acquire privately-held Pretty Good Privacy, Inc. (PGP)."
Varous Questions, comments rants, etc.: Does anyone know how this will affect PGP's: security, commitment to no-GAK, Founder (P. Zimmerman), the continuation of the PGP product line? I heard that McAfee's PCCrypto product will still be sold by NETA as a retail product, (are they considering incorperating the 2 together and just using PGP's team for R&D?) steve -- A picture tells a thousand words. Stego
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- In <348356EF.21C4@ix.netcom.com>, on 12/01/97 at 07:31 PM, steve <xxxxxx@ix.netcom.com> said:
"Network Associates, Inc. (Nasdaq: NETA, commencing Dec. 2), formerly McAfee Associates (Nasdaq: MCAF), announced today that it has a signed a definitive agreement to acquire privately-held Pretty Good Privacy, Inc. (PGP)."
Varous Questions, comments rants, etc.:
Does anyone know how this will affect PGP's: security, commitment to no-GAK, Founder (P. Zimmerman), the continuation of the PGP product line?
I heard that McAfee's PCCrypto product will still be sold by NETA as a retail product, (are they considering incorperating the 2 together and just using PGP's team for R&D?)
steve
It does bring up quite a few questions. Things like source code releases, commitiment to OpenPGP, Freeware for non comercial use. Should make for an intresting OpenPGP BOF in DC next week. :) "May you live in intresting times" -- Chinese curse/blessing - -- - --------------------------------------------------------------- William H. Geiger III http://users.invweb.net/~whgiii Geiger Consulting Cooking With Warp 4.0 Author of E-Secure - PGP Front End for MR/2 Ice PGP & MR/2 the only way for secure e-mail. OS/2 PGP 2.6.3a at: http://users.invweb.net/~whgiii/pgpmr2.html - --------------------------------------------------------------- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3a-sha1 Charset: cp850 Comment: Registered_User_E-Secure_v1.1b1_ES000000 iQCVAwUBNIN/uo9Co1n+aLhhAQIxiwP6AmYLn/k7wuK3yvHbVI6Vnpw0dEiApmQ+ QkZBNm6FflxZgfpWTss5FQWgb9hPO770cn4esr1ZIpTPzD4Lv32b1QkBjP5UWnJc s/i3rP9ueUQv/AmC9ErEHEUgZoWKlJ/mwSszzWf1UDSHoWqU6WlhHk74FtBrjDoQ n46FGvLWzvQ= =5KlR -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
On 1 Dec 1997 21:30:35 -0600, steve <xxxxxx@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
"Network Associates, Inc. (Nasdaq: NETA, commencing Dec. 2), formerly McAfee Associates (Nasdaq: MCAF), announced today that it has a signed a definitive agreement to acquire privately-held Pretty Good Privacy, Inc. (PGP)."
Varous Questions, comments rants, etc.:
Does anyone know how this will affect PGP's: security, commitment to no-GAK, Founder (P. Zimmerman), the continuation of the PGP product line?
I heard that McAfee's PCCrypto product will still be sold by NETA as a retail product, (are they considering incorperating the 2 together and just using PGP's team for R&D?)
steve
Even more basic questions: Will NETA release source code? Will they continue to develop freeware versions of PGP? What conections does NETA have to S/MIME? What happens to licensing of things like PGPsdk and the freeware versions of PGP? Will PGP be seen as a "dead-end" product by potential new users. What will happen to Open-PGP email encryption standard? This is not good. -- Phelix
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