On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 04:36:53PM +0200, Werner Koch wrote: > On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 10:55:02 +0200, Janusz A Urbanowicz said: > > > Some form of secure viewer was present in PGP 2.3 and 2.6 which were FLOSS. > > Huh, that's new to me. Both versions are pure command line tools > without a graphical part. No way to make use fo filtered fonts.
The aim of the secure viewer then was to make difficult to obtain eyes-only message text as a file or a pipe. It checked if output is a live tty, prevented the plaintext ending on the swap and leaving any temp files. It was really difficult to get eyes-only message in plain file form with it in the way (there was no /dev/vcs etc in the days and it needs root anyway). > I am not sure what kind of software you collect untder the term of > FLOSS; if you mean Free Software, PGP has never been Free Software > despite what many people claimed. Software that was distributed under GPL: pgp 2.3 and 2.3a. And pleaase don't let the discussion slip in legalese tetrapiloctomisation. > > Unless they patented it (sigh) it can be renginered back to the GPG, like > > Photo-IDs. > > Photo IDs are a feature of PGP6 and now OpenPGP. My point exactly, excapt that secure viewer needs not to be defined in the protocol RFC. -- mors ab alto 0x46399138 _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
