Does PGP 2.6 use RSAREF version 1, or RSAREF 2.0?
PGP 2.6 uses RSAREF version 1. PGP 2.5 used RSAREF version 2.0. During the discussions that led to the creation of PGP 2.6, RSA Data Security requested that MIT switch to RSAREF 1. Furthermore, RSADSI gave MIT formal written permission to make calls to internal program interfaces in RSAREF 1, consistent with the RSAREF 1 license. From a technical standpoint, it doesn’t matter which version of RSAREF is used by PGP. The major enhancements to RSAREF 2.0 have to do with functionality not required by PGP. Also, RSADSI’s licensing restrictions (which require non-commercial use only) are not significantly different from RSAREF 1 to RSAREF 2. It is possible that later releases of PGP from MIT may use a different release of RSAREF, but we see no reason to do so at this time.
