Date: Mon, 17 Jul 1995 16:15:10 -0400 From: tim werner <werner@mc.ab.com>

... I was talking to one of the sys admins at A-B, and he said that we weren't allowed to use PGP to encrypt our mail, because Viacrypt owned the commercial rights.

I should have mentioned that I have no problem with people trying to make money. However, it turns out that ViaCrypt is not selling site-licenses, or even floating licenses, so they actually want to sell a separate copy for every user that will use it. As it happens, the aforementioned sys admin had purchased 5 licenses, to take care of the 2 users he already knew about, and figuring that there would probably be a couple more wanting to jump on the bandwagon. He offered to let me use one of the licenses, but there's no way I can go and tell my users "we have PGP", if I can't tell everyone that they can do it. And, there's no way I can see convincing my boss that we need that many copies of ViaCrypt, just so everyone in my department can encrypt their email traffic. Of course, I realize that none of the above changes the legality. thanks, tw -- Well, Bust My Britches! Eggs Almondine and a Bottle of Beaujolais!