Anyone can buy PGP 8.0 Personal Edition from Phil Zimmermann, the original author.
I don't know if there is a market for the idea, but instead of selling exactly the same file PGP Corp is selling, he might add his autograph to some metadata associated with the file, signing a short text of the buyers choosing with his private key, and adding a serial number. Sort of a personal version. Maybe personal versions with a one-digit serial number would have some rarity value on Ebay.
Posted by Karl-Friedrich Lenz at January 7, 2003 11:23 PM | TrackBackI think this system is a quite good idea.As it says in a article, it must be better to buy a completely same stuff than buying a diffrent one. Surely a prefere this autograph if I have a chance to get one.