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To: Brendon Woirhaye who wrote (3561)	11/17/1998 11:48:00 AM
From: MoonFather	Respond to of 6021

PGP now a -- proposed -- world standard. Probably a lot of spin on this, but if the IETF endorses PGP as a standard, I think it's good news. IETF Releases Network Associates' PGP Technology to Internet Community as Proposed Internet Standard PR Newswire - November 17, 1998 08:19 OpenPGP Protocol Now Available Worldwide to Create Seamlessly Interoperable Secure Messaging Products SANTA CLARA, Calif., Nov. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Network Associates, Inc. (Nasdaq: NETA) today announced that OpenPGP, the open-standards version of its PGP encryption technology, has been promoted to "Proposed Standard" status by the official standards body of the Internet, the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). The IETF issued the proposed standard announcement under Request For Comment (RFC) #2440. Cryptographic researchers at NAI Labs, the security research arm of Network Associates, drafted the standard in an effort to promote broader worldwide usage of open encryption technology for corporate and commercial applications. With this promotion, Network Associates also granted full change control of the OpenPGP protocols to the IETF. "This is an example of Network Associates' commitment to open standards," said Jon Callas, co-author of the OpenPGP specification and Chief Technical Officer of the Total Network Security division of Network Associates. "Like most technologies associated with the Internet, encryption becomes more useful as more people apply it to solve real problems. Network Associates is proud to turn OpenPGP over to the IETF so that anyone in the world can create PGP-enabled products independent of Network Associates. We are also delighted to release change control of the protocol to the IETF, which completes PGP's transformation from a product to a protocol." Network Associates began marketing and distributing PGP products after it acquired Pretty Good Privacy, Inc. in December of 1997. Today, the company develops several commercial and freeware products based on PGP technology. These products include PGP Enterprise Security 3.0, a scaleable email and disk volume encryption solution designed for large businesses, PGP for Personal Privacy 6.0, available for individual commercial and non-commercial license, and PGP Freeware, a completely free program that anyone can use for non-commercial purposes. PGP software is available internationally in full 128-bit strength from Network Associates BV, based in the Netherlands. More information on the new OpenPGP protocol is available in a new White Paper on the subject posted at nai.com.