Leonard Rosenthol on Sun, 27 Aug 2000 17:27:44 -0400 (EDT)


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RE: [PLUG] PGP ADK Vulnerability.

At 4:45 PM -0400 8/27/00, Bill Jonas wrote: 
Are you sure about that?  It was my impression that they are "viewable
source"; ie, Open Source but not Free Software (analogous, I suppose, to
the SCSL).

"Viewable source" is probably a good way to phrase it. (open source vs. free software discussions to /dev/null).


In fact, consider the previous method by which PGP was exported; I'm
sure most people know, so I won't go into it here.  But unless they
published the book only for themselves and did not sell it to the
public, then it would seem that the source code is available.

Correct. A group called PGP International took the responsibility of scanning in and verifying the code from the books.


LDR

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