PGP and GnuPG specifications

[Werner Koch]

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


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