SECUR> Command-Line Crypto From Phil Zimmermann, Again
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Command-Line Crypto From Phil Zimmermann, Again
EncryptionPosted by timothy on Friday February 07, @04:45PM
from the will-smite-thee-is-a-command-line dept.
http://slashdot.org/articles/03/02/06/1936221.shtml?tid=93
A few months ago, PGP creator Phil Zimmermann became a reseller for the
current graphical version of the software he originally spawned,
produced by PGP Corporation. Now, Zimmermann has just started selling
through his own website a modern command-line encryption product called
FileCrypt, which has its roots in an older version of PGP. Confusingly
enough, this software is produced by a company called (Veridis), and
doesn't say PGP on the box, because legally it can't. Network
Associates, which acquired PGP Inc. in 1997, still holds the rights to
that name; when NAI spun off PGP to PGP Corporation in 2002, they held
onto the command-line version. PGP Corporation, for whom Zimmermann
serves as a technical advisor (as well as a reseller), is contractually
unable to sell a command-line version. (He is on the board of Veridis as
well.) But why introduce a text-only version of utility software,
anyway, when the GUI-fied desktop version has been maturing for years
and costs less? Update: 02/07 23:07 GMT by T: Here are three instant
clarifications: PGP Corporation was misrendered as "Open PGP" in this
paragraph; Veridis' command line product was inspired by PGP but
independently created; its codebase is separate from NAI's version of
PGP; and the rights holder to the PGP name is PGP Corporation, not NAI.
http://www.veridis.com/openpgp/en/index.asp
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