On Thu, 7 May 2026 14:13, Andrew Gallagher said: > That’s fair when you are taking a once-proprietary protocol and
Actually, it was never proprietary. PRZ feared that by a future acquisation the new owner could close the source code and thus limit good privicay for evertone. This is why he wanted to have an open specification. This also helped to avoid possible copyright infringement claims against authors having read the code. (cf. AT&T and Unix). For similar reasons RFC1991 was published in 1996 which acted as an open specification for the specification which accompanied PGP-2. Salam-Shalom, Werner -- The pioneers of a warless world are the youth that refuse military service. - A. Einstein
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