On Sat, Mar 21, 1998 at 04:52:32PM -0500, Bill Leach wrote: > Did you look on a NON-US mirror site? The pgp stuff can not be posted on > U.S. based sites because the U.S. Govt. is paranoid that somehow the U.S. > defense department will be destroyed if a cryptographic system (available > worldwide) is imported into the U.S. and then exported.
On Sat, Mar 21, 1998 at 04:38:14PM -0500, Norbert Veber wrote: > are you saying that this version of mutt doesn't have pgp support and the > ones on non-us have it? That would be a bit strange if you ask me, seeing > as packages such as pinepgp are in the normal distribution. I allready > have the pgp binary, I am talking about pgp support in mutt (the email > client) In the past, the situation was as follows: - US version of mutt: includes hooks to PGP, but has itself no crypto code. It was unclear whether this could be exported or not; the mutt author wanted to be on the safe side; the debian developers decided packages that only contained hooks for crypto could be exported. - export version of mutt: no PGP support whatsoever. This situation has changed. Now: - The US version of mutt has no PGP support whatsoever. - The international version (maintained outside the US) contains better integrated PGP support. As a result, now - The "mutt" version on the regular FTP sites is the US version; no PGP support. - "mutt-i" on nonUS.debian.org and its mirrors is the international version, including PGP support. HTH, Ray -- PATRIOTISM A great British writer once said that if he had to choose between betraying his country and betraying a friend he hoped he would have the decency to betray his country. - The Hipcrime Vocab by Chad C. Mulligan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
