HushMail 2.0 released, supports OpenPGP standard

[Noah Salzman]

"Chief Cryptographer" sounds like full-time paid position to me.

  --Noah--



http://www.hush.com/about_hush/media_center/press/19_february_01.shtml

Hush Communications Appoints World-Renowned Cryptographer, Philip R.
Zimmermann

Inventor of PGP joins leading encryption company, Hush Communications, to
accelerate adoption of mass-market cryptography

Dublin, Ireland - 19 February, 2001-Hush Communications Corporation
(www.hush.com) today announced the appointment of Philip R. Zimmermann as a
Chief Cryptographer for the Company. Zimmermann has been asked to lead
Hush's efforts to fully integrate support for the OpenPGP standard into
Hush's core technology by President and Chief Executive Officer, Jon
Matonis, and Chief Technology Officer, David Bowman.





-----Original Message-----
From: owner-cryptography at wasabisystems.com
[mailto:owner-cryptography at wasabisystems.com]On Behalf Of Declan
McCullagh
Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2001 7:34 AM
To: Ben Laurie
Cc: cryptography at wasabisystems.com
Subject: Re: HushMail 2.0 released, supports OpenPGP standard


At 03:31 PM 7/19/01 +0100, Ben Laurie wrote:
>Declan McCullagh wrote:
> > Phil Zimmermann, Managing Director of the OpenPGP Alliance
>
>And, err, Hush employee...

I'm not sure if this is technically correct. I interviewed Phil about it at
the time and I recall him as closer to a contractor. Still, he's getting
payment of some sort from Hush and they might have seen fit to include a
hint of the close affiliation in their press release.

-Declan




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