Purchasing RSA licenses for PGP directly from RSA? Nope

[Scott Fullerton <sfullerton@glhec.org>]

I spoke with Brian Spector of RSA DSI this morning on the possibility of 
negotiating directly with RSA to obtain license to use their algorithm in the 
PGP toolkit.  His response was very categorical: no way would RSA management 
consent to such an arrangement.   According to him, NAI/PGP has become an 
"emotional thing" for them.   He was confident they would never consent to 
softening their stance on the use of RSA in PGP.

He was interested in exploring (yet again) the possibility of providing us with 
S/MIME.  He wanted to provide us with some solution that would "alleviate our 
pain."  I or someone from our group may want to pursue this.  (He remembered 
talking with folks from our group earlier when we were looking for 
alterenatives.)

So, that's it for PGP using RSA.  Aside from the fact that Brian Spector feels 
our pain, it's no dice.