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- From: moore@cs.utah.edu (Tim Moore)
- Subject: Re: PGP v. 2.1 Released
- Message-ID: <MOORE.92Dec18095153@defmacro.cs.utah.edu>
- In-reply-to: a_rubin@dsg4.dse.beckman.com's message of 16 Dec 92 17:26:48 GMT
- Organization: University of Utah CS Dept
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- Date: 18 Dec 92 09:51:53
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- In article <a_rubin.724526808@dn66> a_rubin@dsg4.dse.beckman.com (Arthur Rubin) writes:
- > 2) The legality of PGP is not being seriously debated. It's illegal.
- [...]
- It may have some code
- "contaminated" with some RSA code, in violation of copyright and/or trade
- secret.
-
- I have never seen this claim before. Could you elaborate? PKP
- alleges that Zimmerman may have stolen ideas from MailSafe because he
- had a copy in 1986, but that is extremely debatable (and Zimmerman
- denies it.)
-
- pgp 2.x does contain RSADSI code for the MD5 digest algorithm. This
- code is licensed to all under very generous terms (you have to mention
- that your code contains RSADSI's code or is derived from it.)
-
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