-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Readme file for PGPfone 2.1 source code --------------------------------------- This is the source code for PGPfone version 2.1, for the Macintosh and for Windows. I developed PGPfone with Will Price and others before starting my company, PGP Inc, in 1996. After the company was formed, I assigned all my rights to this software to the company. Unfortunately, the company never showed much interest in the product, despite the fact that I was chairman. The reason is that the company specifically targeted its marketing efforts only at corporate IT departments, and that market was not interested in PGPfone. After PGPfone 2.0 was released (due to my personal efforts to push the company to develop PGPfone at least to the 2.0 release), all development stopped and the product was neglected. Later, when Network Associates (NAI) acquired PGP Inc in December 1997, the product became even more neglected. NAI was even more focused on the corporate IT market. Will Price continued small amounts of development effort in his spare time, resulting in PGPfone 2.1. But we could not get NAI to release it, due to the costs of releasing a product, and the fact that version 2.1 still had some bugs that would have held up release. Rather than let PGPfone die completely, Will and I decided to release the source code, which we did when NAI published the source code for PGP 6.5.1. Because of US export restrictions on cryptographic software, NAI publishes PGP releases in printed book form. We just printed an extra volume with the PGPfone source code and bundled that book with the rest of the books in the PGP 6.5.1 source code set. After the books were OCR-scanned in Europe, the source code was published on the PGP International Home Page at www.pgpi.org in Norway. Although NAI is releasing the source code, the source code is still copyrighted by NAI, and cannot be used without permission. Now that the source code for PGPfone is finally published, we can get help from others who want to make improvements and fix bugs in PGPfone. If anyone wants to do any development work to make improvements to this code, please contact me personally at prz@pgp.com. You can also find my phone number on my web page at www.pgp.com/phil. Philip Zimmermann 1 November 1999 www.pgp.com/phil -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 6.5.2 iQA/AwUBOB4gNmPLaR3669X8EQIApACgtKS6xFjAMAcozKEPJhqnv0lVay0AoJyD OydJ7IotPcwV9crJ38ikEK/c =nnz1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----