Subject: Re: PGP?

From: David Casti <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 15 May 1994 16:20:05 -0400 (EDT)

Hi David,

About a month ago, we spoke briefly about PGP and pine.  One of your 
comments was --

> PGP support is requested quite frequently, but due to legal
> considerations we are very unlikely to distribute any explicit support for
> PGP.

In case you haven't already heard, there is a very exciting new 
development on this front.  PGP version 2.5 was released on or about May 
5, and the start of the documentation for that version reads:

Changes to PGP 2.5:

                 ***** MOST IMPORTANT *****

This version of PGP uses RSAREF 2.0, so it's legal in the U.S.!  The
RSAREF license forbids you to (among other things; see the license for
full details) "use the program to provide services to others for which
you are compensated in any manner", but that still covers a lot of
people.

> We are looking into the possibility of providing some general hooks 
> though... 

I'm all for general hooks, but since PGP is already so widely used and 
now that all legal barriers (in this country) have been removed, I'd like 
to encourage your group to reconsider including patches for PGP in your 
contrib/ directory.  You certainly don't have to distribute PGP -- just 
include some patches for those of us who use it.

Let me know what you think,
David.

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From: "Robert A. Hayden" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 15 May 1994 19:11:59 -0500 (CDT)

I'm also all for PGP inclusion into pine, and while there is some 
concerns about the politics behind MIT-PGP and the fact that it is an 
as-of-yet untested encryption algoritm, I do believe that some ideas 
should be tossed around the Pine-makers about how to ultimately implement 
some kind of public key cryptography into pine.

NOTE:  MIT-PGP might be fine, but it was only released a short time ago, 
and it has not yet been fully tested among the cypherpunk community, and 
thus cannot be fully endorsed. 

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From: Terry Gray <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 15 May 1994 21:42:10 -0700 (PDT)

David and Robert:
We are very interested in these developments...
While the hooks for pgp/pem/whatever won't be in 3.90,
they are very definitely on our "short" list.

-teg

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From: David Casti <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 16 May 1994 07:54:28 -0400 (EDT)

Hi Terry,

> they are very definitely on our "short" list.

While I'm very interested in your team adding full support for PGP/etc in 
your code, would you consider including a PGP patch in your contrib/ 
directory?

Thanks,
David.

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From: VampLestat <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 16 May 1994 17:05:23 -0700 (PDT)

> your code, would you consider including a PGP patch in your contrib/ 

Can someone forward me a copy of the patch that was made to integrate PGP 
into pine?  I've grabbed the new version of PGP and I'd like to patch my 
current copy of pine and start using it... 

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