> Has anyone asked the company shysters about the legal status of MIT- PGP? > I'd really like to have and use pgp at work, but have hesitated abou t > putting it our machines here, as we are so prim and proper (in publi c) > about intellectual property. Asked them what? When PGP 2.5 is released (what you call MIT-PGP), it *WILL* be legal in the US. It will use RSAREF 2.0, so there will be no question as to its legality in the US for non-commercial purposes. Two things come to mind. First, some company lawyers may not like the provisions of the RSAREF license. At the very least, most companies with on-staff lawyers would want them to glance at it. Second, I've never seen a comparable piece of electronic ``paper'' about IDEA. Have you seen something from the patent owners themselves? Not that I have any doubts -- but I've seen cases where lawyers demanded a paper trail of agreements from the patent assignee of record as listed in the Official Gazette. The answers may be obvious to some folks on this list -- but most of us aren't lawyers.