Alon Bar-Lev wrote: > > David Picon Alvarez wrote: > > > >>You trust the Microsoft CryptoAPI? Well why don't you just run Windows, >>which Microsoft Says is Perfectly Secure, and use Microsoft's inbuilt >>X.509 instead of OpenPGP, since Microsoft Guarantees No Back Doors in >>the CryptoAPI? > > > No! this is not the issue of cryptography. > It was an argument for the GPL position that some of the people here took. > I am saying that if you take that stand, GPL application can enjoy the > Microsoft environment more than the open source environment, and that it > does not make sense to me... > Please read the whole corresponding. >
I understand. The only place in the GPL where libraries are mentioned is in reference to the LGPL. Using the Microsoft CryptoAPI doesn't appear to be legal; AFAICT, this is similar to the reason why Enigmail insists on GPG instead of being able to interface with PGP on Windows systems. In that case, it appears that GNU/Linux has the upper hand, because at least there are *some* GPL/LGPL libraries available for what you want. With Windows, it appears that everything is proprietary. -- Alphax | /"\ Encrypted Email Preferred | \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign OpenPGP key ID: 0xF874C613 | X Against HTML email & vCards http://tinyurl.com/cc9up | / \ _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
