-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- To: All PGP users Date: 2 Sep 94 Re: PGP 2.6.1 release MIT will be releasing Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) version 2.6.1 real soon now. By tomorrow, I think. The MSDOS release filename will be pgp261.zip, and the source code will be in pgp261s.zip. The MIT FTP site is net-dist@mit.edu, in the pub/PGP directory. Be sure to adhere to US export restrictions when you redistribute PGP after getting it from MIT. Since Compuserve has an unfortunate restriction of 6-character filenames, I don't know how they will handle the name collision of the source archive filename. I suggest that anyone who uploads the sources to Compuserve rename the file pg261s.zip. Just for Compuserve only. This new version has a lot of bug fixes over version 2.6. I hope this is the final release of this family of PGP source code. We've been working on an entirely new version of PGP, rewritten from scratch, which is much cleaner and faster, and better suited for the future enhancements we have planned. All PGP development efforts will be redirected toward this new code base, after this 2.6.1 release. There are some important changes to the 2.6.1 manual, especially in the Legal Issues section. Please read the "Freeware Status and Restrictions" section. Especially those of you who want to make changes to PGP. I hope all PGP users are switching to the official MIT releases, now that the new data formats have become effective on 1 Sept. PGP 2.6, as well as this new 2.6.1, will always be able to read messages, signatures and keys produced by the older versions. See the manual for details. PGP has many really cool new features planned in its future, and these new features will require more new data formats to support them. Stay compatible by keeping up to date with the official PGP releases from MIT. This message may be reposted to all interested newsgroups. - --Philip Zimmermann prz@acm.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6 iQCVAwUBLmd9jGV5hLjHqWbdAQGSsAP/RVrmYG3rrVQPlrA4Qf4w5kTyB3RJNLr/ QSOX6C0Lqj3bczCDeyBRlvfydlkSYhwe955OXjF3/tyUdQ/aLyTkz/Sc50yXXxZ8 xfEyaaSDAGkkZPVzvA4dOpDdcgWiYf2q5C7iHM/MbVUUAIX+B6Xh7+3RNKR9U1kh D7QvXd9P1M8= =WqZF -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----