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Subject:    BoS: (fwd) PGP 2.62ui has been released
From:       Julian Assange <proff () suburbia ! net>
Date:       1995-09-16 1:47:59
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From: tony@mantis.co.uk (Tony Lezard)
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Subject: PGP 2.62ui has been released
Date: 17 Jul 1995 16:33:17 +0100
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----

Version 2.62 of PGP ui (Unofficial International version, GPL, based on
PGP 2.3a) has been released. It may be found at

ftp://ftp.mantis.co.uk/pub/cryptography/

and comes in three flavours:

pg262uis.zip       PGP 2.62ui sources, DOS line endings, PKZIP compressed.
pg262uix.zip       PGP 2.62ui DOS executable and documentation, PKZIPed.
pgp262uis.tar.gz   PGP 2.62ui source, Unix line endings, gzipped tar.

These files are currently mirrored at

ftp://ftp.ox.ac.uk/pub/crypto/pgp/pc/pg262uis.zip
ftp://ftp.ox.ac.uk/pub/crypto/pgp/pc/pg262uix.zip
ftp://ftp.ox.ac.uk/pub/crypto/pgp/unix/pgp262uis.tar.gz

which could well be a faster site to use, and will be available at other
sites, such as src.doc.ic.ac.uk.

This version is being made available for a number of reasons:

* It is the only version fully compatible with *all* versions of PGP
from 2.0 to 2.7

* It incorporates a number of bug fixes and features not available
in the MIT release (see its README.1ST)

* This version, like 2.3a and 2.6ui before it, is published under the
terms of the GPL. Consequently:

  - You are not bound by the RSADSI licence since this version does not
  use RSAREF (which forbids commercial use and unauthorised use of the
  cryptographic routines), as you are with MIT PGP.

  - You are not bound by the MIT licence (which requires the program
  to produce output that cannot be read by earlier versions), as you are
  with both MIT PGP and Staale Schumacher's PGP 2.6.2i.

  - you can therefore do what you like with the code of the program
  provided any derivative work is also GPL'd.

  - The only relevant patent for users outside the USA is Ascom-Tech's
  patent on IDEA. For non-commercial use it's free, anywhere. For
  commercial use you need  a license, but this portion of the PGP 2.6.2
  documentation (freely exportable, by the way) is interesting:

    [Ascom-Tech has told Phil Zimmerman that t]hey will allow
    commercial users of PGP outside the US or Canada to use IDEA
    in PGP without paying royalties to Ascom-Tech, because it is
    not currently possible for commercial users to buy a licensed
    version of PGP outside the US or Canada. 

* Since this code was written and developed outside the USA, American
export law (ITAR) is not an issue.

Users inside the USA may not legally use 2.62ui, because the RSA
patent is in effect there. USA residents are advised to obtain one
of the MIT versions which have a license for non-commercial use of
RSA.

Phil Zimmerman does not support this version in any way, and queries
about it should be directed to me.


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Version: 2.6.2

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r7z+He6vj8RXJ0ZWnXCAPSgPk2ymurpAJmEDcW2iQXiZBtLWw5c3MdGVa48aRMd2
8zqJplTskEymkesZNMNGSkzlS0Df3pgioYOmTeDtPoo7JKSVwQH+9VNQinZyPySm
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=sTPI
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
-- 
== Tony Lezard ==  |  PGP public key 0xBF172045 available from keyservers
tony@mantis.co.uk  |  or from my home page, http://www.mantis.co.uk/~tony/

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|          Julian Assange          | "if you think the United  States has    |
|                                  |  has stood still, who built the largest |
|        proff@suburbia.net        |  shopping centre in the world?" - Nixon |
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