| 'an FTP site at MIT' is rather vague. Anyone have specifics? | From owner-cypherpunks@toad.com Mon May 9 14:02:29 1994 | Date: Mon, 9 May 94 09:32:39 -0400 | Message-Id: <9405091332.AA29405@big-screw> | From: "Jeffrey I. Schiller" <jis@mit.edu> | To: cypherpunks@toad.com | Subject: MIT Announces PGP 2.5 | Sender: owner-cypherpunks@toad.com | Precedence: bulk | | Beta Test Release of PGP version 2.5 | May 9, 1994 | | The Massachusetts Institute of Technology announces the distribution | of PGP version 2.5, incorporating the RSAREF 2.0 cryptographic toolkit | under license from RSA Data Security, Inc., dated March 16, 1994. In | accordance with the terms and limitations of the RSAREF 2.0 license of | March 16, 1994, this version of PGP may be used for non-commercial | purposes only. | | PGP 2.5 strictly conforms to the conditions of the RSAREF 2.0 license | of March 16, 1994. As permitted under its RSAREF license, MIT's | distribution of PGP 2.5 includes an accompanying distribution of the | March 16, 1994 release of RSAREF 2.0. Users of PGP 2.5 are directed | to consult the RSAREF 2.0 license included with the distribution to | understand their obligations under that license. | | This distribution of PGP 2.5, available in source code form, is | available only to users within the United States of America. Use of | PGP 2.5 (and the included RSAREF 2.0) may be subject to export | control. Questions concerning possible export restrictions on PGP 2.5 | (and RSAREF 2.0) should be directed to the U.S. State Department's | Office of Defense Trade Controls. | | Users in the United States of America can obtain information via FTP | | | | from net-dist.mit.edu in the directory /pub/PGP. | | *** | Beta Release Note -- May 7, 1994 | *** | | Today's release of PGP 2.5 is a beta test release, designed to permit | users to familiarize themselves with the program and to give us | feedback before we make the final release. | | This version of PGP2.5 has been tested on the following platforms: | | MSDOS, Sun381i, Solaris 2.X, Ultrix 4.X, Linux, RS6000, | HP/UX | | Over the next few days, we will be testing PGP2.5 on a variety of | other systems and collecting bug reports from this release. | | Please send bug reports to pgp-bugs@mit.edu. | | If you obtain a copy of this beta release code, please keep checking | http://web.mit.edu for the announcement of the final release, so that | you can update your copy of PGP2.5. We expect the final release to | occur within a week. | | *** To Get PGP2.5: The directory where PGP2.5 is located is hidden. | To get it you need to telnet to "net-dist.mit.edu" and login as getpgp. | You will be asked to confirm that you will abide by the terms and | conditions of the 3/16/94 RSAREF 2.0 license. The license is in | the file "license.txt" in /pub/PGP on net-dist.mit.edu. |