PGP 2.5 Beta Release Over, PGP 2.6 to be released next week

Paul Ferguson paul at hawksbill.sprintmrn.com
Mon May 16 11:50:36 PDT 1994



> 
> In order  to   fully protect  RSADSI's intellectual  property  rights in
> public-key technology, PGP 2.6 will be designed so  that the messages it
> creates after September 1,  1994 will be  unreadable by earlier versions
> of PGP that infringe patents licensed exclusively to Public Key Partners
> by MIT and Stanford University. PGP 2.6 will continue to be able to read
> messages generated by those earlier versions.
>

I suppose that it (also) will not allow upgrade inclusion of a secret
key created with these previous versions? If not, I can't imagine 
many folks will be rushing to upgrade to 2.6.

- paul






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