Hi, Conan Purves schrieb: > Theoretically speaking, what is the difference between PGP and GPG? Is > it just a different management tool handling the same encryption > algorithm or is there some further translation between the two?
They are two tools sharing the principles of public-key encryption. PGP was implemented first. Sadly being non-free, many people considered it not usable for security tasks. Thus, a Free Software implementation was started, that's GnuPG. Further, a standard [1] was drafted so other tools could be created which share the same principles. Or maybe this is nonsense and someone can correct me. ;) > Why does my Enigmail menu on Thunderbird say OpenPGP, but it is using the > GnuGPG engine? Should be answered above. :) [1] http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2440.txt Best wishes Michael -- Nobody can save your freedom but YOU - become a fellow of the FSF Europe! http://www.fsfe.org/en
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