From: Dave Dearinger (daved@mdon-line.com)
Date: Sat Jan 07 2006 - 04:08:48 EST
Answering the original question.
PGP corporation products have been available in limited trialware form
for a couple of years now. I think that 2003 was about the end for free
PGP encryption binaries on Microsoft Windows or Apple OS. You may be
able to locate an OpenPGP port at sourceforge.net.
Assumptions required to support a rumor that a licensed software product
may hinder communication between undesirable elements.
1: Undesirable elements have no money to buy licensed software products.
2: Undesirable elements would not use stolen credit or identities to
facilitate purchase of licensed software products.
3: Undesirable elements would never use free open source software that
performs the same functions as licensed software products.
4: Undesirable elements would never pirate licensed software.
5: Undesirable elements would prefer to use a sophisticated
technological solution to secure their communication over simple
pre-arranged codes.
Yes, that's it, the developers of the commercial version of PGP are
trying to mold these so called terrorists' in to better citizens of the
world by forcing them to migrate to free open source operating systems
and encryption software.
There is no need to try to link changes in products and services that a
software company provides to any event that took place on 9-11.
I don't know how you would define a terrorist. I would define
terrorists' as persons that threatens that other people will come to
harm if the target fails to comply with their agenda.
-Dave Dearinger
John E. Fleming wrote:
>Not sure if it was just rumor or not, but I heard this happened as a
>result of 9-11. Apparently the terrorists' were using the freeware
>version of PGP to encrypt their communications with each other. I may be
>wrong, but I'm sure that's what I heard. Maybe making it a commercial
>version can not only generate revenue, but possibly help enforce import
>and export laws on the software.
>
>Regards,
>
>John
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: kuffya@gmail.com [mailto:kuffya@gmail.com]
>Sent: Friday, January 06, 2006 6:58 AM
>To: pen-test@securityfocus.com
>Subject: PGP 9.0
>
>Hi list,
>
>This topic is not really pen-test specific but I feel it is very often
>relevant and I haven't seen it mentioned anywhere else. The question is:
>Whatever happened to the freeware version of PGP?? It seems that the
>latest v9.0 is only offered as 'trial' from pgp.com. I searched
>everywhere (pgpi.org mit's site etc) but noone has a freewere version
>anymore (for windows).
>Of course, if you insist you can find in the depths of the web copies of
>pgp version 8, for free, and perfectly legal. And there is always GnuPG
>so the situation is not desperate yet. I was just wondering if anyone
>has any info on the topic ; has the app silently gone commercial?
>
>Thanks
>S.
>
>
>
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