Path: bga.com!news.sprintlink.net!hookup!yeshua.marcam.com!news.kei.com! bloom-beacon.mit.edu!senator-bedfellow.mit.edu!zurich.ai.mit.edu!bal From: b...@zurich.ai.mit.edu (Brian A. LaMacchia) Newsgroups: sci.crypt,alt.security.pgp Subject: MIT Announces availability of PGP 2.5 Date: 9 May 94 14:04:14 Organization: M.I.T. Artificial Intelligence Lab. Lines: 66 Message-ID: <BAL.94May9140414@freeside.ai.mit.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: freeside.ai.mit.edu Xref: bga.com sci.crypt:5384 alt.security.pgp:5780 MIT has announced availability of PGP 2.5 (beta). Here's a copy of the announcement I received: --bal Date: Mon, 9 May 94 09:32:39 -0400 From: Jeffrey I. Schiller <j...@mit.edu> Subject: MIT Announces PGP 2.5 Beta Test Release of PGP version 2.5 May 9, 1994 The Massachusetts Institute of Technology announces the distribution of PGP version 2.5, incorporating the RSAREF 2.0 cryptographic toolkit under license from RSA Data Security, Inc., dated March 16, 1994. In accordance with the terms and limitations of the RSAREF 2.0 license of March 16, 1994, this version of PGP may be used for non-commercial purposes only. PGP 2.5 strictly conforms to the conditions of the RSAREF 2.0 license of March 16, 1994. As permitted under its RSAREF license, MIT's distribution of PGP 2.5 includes an accompanying distribution of the March 16, 1994 release of RSAREF 2.0. Users of PGP 2.5 are directed to consult the RSAREF 2.0 license included with the distribution to understand their obligations under that license. This distribution of PGP 2.5, available in source code form, is available only to users within the United States of America. Use of PGP 2.5 (and the included RSAREF 2.0) may be subject to export control. Questions concerning possible export restrictions on PGP 2.5 (and RSAREF 2.0) should be directed to the U.S. State Department's Office of Defense Trade Controls. Users in the United States of America can obtain information via FTP from net-dist.mit.edu in the directory /pub/PGP. *** Beta Release Note -- May 7, 1994 *** Today's release of PGP 2.5 is a beta test release, designed to permit users to familiarize themselves with the program and to give us feedback before we make the final release. This version of PGP2.5 has been tested on the following platforms: MSDOS, Sun381i, Solaris 2.X, Ultrix 4.X, Linux, RS6000, HP/UX Over the next few days, we will be testing PGP2.5 on a variety of other systems and collecting bug reports from this release. Please send bug reports to pgp-...@mit.edu. If you obtain a copy of this beta release code, please keep checking http://web.mit.edu for the announcement of the final release, so that you can update your copy of PGP2.5. We expect the final release to occur within a week. *** To Get PGP2.5: The directory where PGP2.5 is located is hidden. To get it you need to telnet to "net-dist.mit.edu" and login as getpgp. You will be asked to confirm that you will abide by the terms and conditions of the 3/16/94 RSAREF 2.0 license. The license is in the file "license.txt" in /pub/PGP on net-dist.mit.edu.
Xref: gmd.de comp.org.eff.talk:26588 sci.crypt:19275 alt.security.pgp: 12886 alt.politics.datahighway:3191 misc.legal:53442 talk.politics.crypto: 5244 alt.wired:8365 alt.activism:44323 alt.activism.d: 10038 alt.society.resistance:1385 Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk,sci.crypt,alt.security.pgp, alt.politics.datahighway,misc.legal,talk.politics.crypto,alt.wired, austin.eff,alt.activism,alt.activism.d,alt.society.resistance Path: gmd.de!nntp.gmd.de!dearn!blekul11!psuvm!news.cac.psu.edu! news.pop.psu.edu!psuvax1!news.ecn.bgu.edu! usenet.ins.cwru.edu!gatech!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!ncar!csn!recnews From: Stanton McCandlish <me...@eff.org> Subject: PGP 2.5 now available from EFF's FTP site Message-ID: <199405140202.WAA12953@eff.org> Apparently-To: com-...@psi.com Keywords: pgp, pgp2.5 pgp 2.5 Sender: ne...@csn.org Nntp-Posting-Host: news-1.csn.net Organization: Electronic Frontier Foundation Date: Sat, 14 May 1994 02:02:02 GMT Return-Path: <me...@eff.org> Lines: 51 PGP 2.5 available from Electronic Frontier Foundation ftp site -------------------------------------------------------------- With the early May announcement of the availability of the new version of PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) a free encryption program for email and other files, EFF has decided to provide PGP and other cryptographic material to users of the Internet. EFF applauds and congratulates the PGP development team, MIT (who initially made PGP 2.5 available), and RSA Data Security (patent holders of the RSA and RSAREF encryption code) for coming to an agreement and providing this new version of the most popular email encryption program in the world - a free version that is finally legal in the US. Previous versions of PGP arguably violated US patent law, with the exception of ViaCrypt's commercial PGP 2.4, but the new 2.5 is built upon the free RSAREF encryption functions, rather than the previous RSA functions which required a special licensing arrangement for use in applications like PGP. Despite the patent & licensing issues being resolved, PGP is still not legally exportable from the United States (except to Canada), due to ITAR export restrictions which categorize cryptographic materials as weapons of war. Thus, EFF can only make PGP and other crypto tools and source code available to US and Canadian nationals currently residing in the US or Canada and connecting to EFF's site from a US or Canadian site. PGP and similar material is available from EFF's ftp site in a hidden directory, and only to Americans and Canadians. Access to this directory can be obtained by reading and following the instructions in the README.Dist file at: ftp.eff.org, /pub/Net_info/Tools/Crypto/ gopher.eff.org, 1/Net_info/Tools/Crypto gopher://gopher.eff.org/11/Net_info/Tools/Crypto http://www.eff.org/pub/Net_info/Tools/Crypto/ PGP can only be obtained from EFF via ftp currently. Gopher and WWW access to the material itself is not supported at this time. Only the DOS and Unix versions of PGP 2.5 have been released so far. The Unix version is in source code form, and so can be readily ported to VMS, NeXT and many other operating systems. A Macintosh version has yet to be released. If you would like to see US export restrictions on cryptography removed, please send a message supporting Rep. Cantwell's export reform act (bill HR3627) to cant...@eff.org, ask your Representatives to co-sponsor this bill, and ask your Senators to co-sponsor Sen. Murray's companion bill (S1846) in the US Senate. Congress contact information is available from ftp.eff.org, /pub/EFF/Issues/Activism/govt_contact.list