Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!midway!gargoyle.uchicago.edu!hugh From: hugh@gargoyle.uchicago.edu (Hugh Miller) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: What happened to "Pretty Good Privacy" ?? Message-ID: Date: 26 Jun 91 15:05:23 GMT References: <1991Jun22.023415.12914@odin.corp.sgi.com> <3473@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (NewsMistress) Organization: University of Chicago Lines: 33 In <3473@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr) writes: >In article <1991Jun22.023415.12914@odin.corp.sgi.com> nelson@bolyard.wpd.sgi.com (Nelson Bolyard) writes: >| My purpose in writing about this is *NOT* to start a big thread about >| "software patents", and also it is certainly not to ask for a copy of the >| "Pretty Good Privacy" program, but rather it is simply to ask, what >| happened to it? Was is all a hoax? Did it ever get submitted to the >| c.b.i.p moderator? Is it scheduled to be posted? Was the moderator asked >| to supress it from c.b.i.p because of potential patent infringement >| troubles? > As far as I can tell it was never submitted. I keep a record of >anything I get, even if I reject it, and I see no evidence that I got >it. If it was encryption software I would not post it because of the ban >on exporting certain technology. And I bet the ftp sites in the US >wouldn't carry it either, as was done with pkzip at one point. That's odd. I downloaded pgp from either this newsgroup or comp.sources (can't remember which & didn't save the headers). Two files: pgp10.zip (binaries) and pgp10src.zip (source code). They work fine. And why will you not post crypto programs when the folks over in sci.crypt do it all the time? I must have more than a dozen encryption routines of varying age and robustness from them. NSA's not breathing down anybody's necks over there. -=- Hugh Hugh Miller | Dept. of Philosophy | Loyola University of Chicago Voice: 312-508-2727 | FAX: 312-508-2292 | UUCP: hugh@gargoyle.uchicago.edu "Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain!" - The Wizard of Oz