Talked to Phil Zimmermann....

Eric Hughes hughes at ah.com
Mon Aug 30 10:53:46 PDT 1993


>Triple DES may be used in some versions (don't ask me
>for details....I'm not sure of the tradeoffs between DES and
>IDEA...perhaps the deal to use IDEA doesn't fit with a commercial
>version of PGP).

As Phil told me, the owner of the IDEA patent has recently been asking
for lots more money.  These actions don't affect the agreement with
Phil with respect to PGP.  Phil doesn't want to encourage the
patentholder's behavior.

I've cc: Phil should he wish to elaborate.

Eric






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