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PGP Acquired From NAI

lowy writes "PGP Corporation, the 'new company with a long history' today announced that it has received $14 Million in funding and acquired the PGP Desktop and Wireless encryption product lines from Network Associates, Inc." PGP Corporation issued five press releases today, but we'll forgive it because it actually has products to sell, promises to keep offering a freeware version, and is taking on tech support for existing customers. Also, the email from NAI to its customers follows.

August 19, 2002

Dear Customer,

Today we are pleased to announce that PGP Corporation, a newly formed, venture-funded security company, has acquired the PGP desktop encryption and wireless product lines from Network Associates. As you know, prior to placing the products into maintenance mode, we were actively looking for a buyer that would continue the development and support of the technology.

Network Associates has retained products developed using PGPsdk including McAfee E-Business Server for encrypted server-to-server file transfer, McAfee Desktop Firewall and McAfee VPN Client. These products will remain a part of Network Associates existing product portfolio and we will continue to develop them to meet your security needs. PGP Corporation has acquired PGPmail, PGPfile, PGPdisk, PGPwireless, PGPadmin and PGPkeyserver encryption software products for Win32 and Macintosh, PGPsdk encryption software development kit, and PGP Corporate Desktop for Macintosh.

In addition to the technology, PGP Corporation has acquired all worldwide customer license agreements and technical support obligations. To ensure a seamless transition, Network Associates will work with PGP Corporation to support PGP customers through October 26, 2002. PGP Corporation will contact you shortly with details on its plans and product direction.

We trust that you will have continued success with the PGP desktop and wireless encryption products through PGP Corporation. Network Associates appreciates your business and we value our continued relationship across our remaining product lines.

21 of 175 comments (clear)

  1. whee by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    first p0$+

  2. Great! by Memetic · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    No I can go to jail for forgetting may password (That's the law in the UK now!) knowing my software is supported.

  3. Open source it all!! by qurob · · Score: -1, Offtopic


    Puhleeease!

  4. who funded it by bumbaclaat · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    what are the chances that it's the CIA's venture fund and they're going to monkey with the code

  5. slashdotted... by gclef · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Warning: Too many connections in /var/www/html/pgp/conn.php on line 7

    Warning: MySQL Connection Failed: Too many connections in /var/www/html/pgp/conn.php on line 7
    Error: Could not connect to MySql

    mmmm....I love the smell of a slashdotting in the morning. It smells like...victory.

  6. financing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    speaking of financing....


    LNUX | VA SOFTWARE CORP | 1.27 | -8.6%


    I'd guess one week until it's back under $1.00 again

  7. Obligatory troll... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Warning: MySQL Connection Failed: Too many connections in /var/www/html/pgp/conn.php on line 7 Error: Could not connect to MySql

    They should have been using Oracle.

    1. Re:Obligatory troll... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      LOL! or even postgres.

  8. slashdotted already by flurdy · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Announcing v8.
    nice.
    but slashdotted already

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  9. PGP Corporation, we hardly knew ye. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Wow, that was the fastest slashdotting I've ever seen. Truly. Usually it takes a minute or two, but that was instantaneous.

  10. Re:Awesome by sllort · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    , how will that help if your laptop gets stolen, do you haev to enter the PGP password do boot windows?

    No, but you have to enter the PGP password to steal all the work I've done for my company. The notebook itself is worthless by comparison.

  11. Re:Does anyone actually use PGP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    looks like a bunch of shit to me ;-)

  12. EVERYONE VISIT MY NEW WEBSITE!!! by Spazntwich · · Score: -1, Offtopic
  13. Re:You sounded credible... by sllort · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You sounded credible... ..until you revealed that you think programmers *pick* one Window Manager over another when designing applications.

    Tell me, did any of the X linux applications out there that are bundled with Redhat and begin with the letter "k" get designed for a particular Window Manager? Or were they designed to function in every destkop environment (Gnome, KDE, CDE, etc.)

    Just curious.

  14. Re:You sounded credible... by avalys · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Obviously, you have no idea what a Window Manager actually does.

    Gnome and KDE are desktop environments, not Window Managers.

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  15. Should this link us back to the MySQL story? by ergo98 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You know, the one that talks about MySQL supplanting Oracle....

    Warning: Too many connections in /var/www/html/pgp/conn.php on line 7

    Warning: MySQL Connection Failed: Too many connections in /var/www/html/pgp/conn.php on line 7

    Error: Could not connect to MySql

  16. Re:You sounded credible... by Xerithane · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Right...and meanwhile, he was being polite and courteous.

    I felt it was one of the best pro-windows posts I've seen on slashdot. Well written, non-inflammatory and for the most part a good post. Besides, what he said was mostly valid if you substitute Window Manager with Desktop Environment. An honest mistake amongst non-linux users. Even some I know, if you ask what WM they use will say, "Gnome."

    And I'm not sure why you thought his post wasn't polite...

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  17. Re:Awesome by Cryogenes · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    PGP-Disk works flawlessly on Windows XP, have been using it for quite some time now. It's just not officially supported.

  18. Re:Awesome by sllort · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I did not know that.

    Is there a "unofficial-compatibility-list" somewhere that lists what works in XP and what doesn't? If the IPSec VPN works as well, I might just be in business...

    KWTCMA

  19. Guess they should be using DB2 by anthony_dipierro · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    like sourceforge.net

    Warning: MySQL Connection Failed: Too many connections in /var/www/html/pgp/conn.php on line 7 Error: Could not connect to MySql

  20. Re:Mac OS X by baptiste · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    #include rant about users not knowing how to configure MySQL for primetime use.

    This error is a config issue - so the admin of that site isn't ready for prime time. Any web site with a MySQL backend has to change some MySQL parms to fit that application.