On 2000-10-20 17:02:57 +0930, Brian Salter-Duke wrote:
> I recently decided to try GnuPG after using only pgp2 off and on for
> some years. It was only after I downloaded it and played with it for a
> while, that I realised that version 1.0.3 was very recent. I had got in
> right at the beginning of a new version. This new version incorporates
> RSA which I understand came out of copyright only in September.
PGP 2.x also uses the IDEA algorithm which is patented in some countries
(and therefore not included in GPG), so you will still need one plugin
for GPG to handle 2.x-compatible PGP-messages.
hp
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|_|_) | Sysadmin WSR / LUGA | exec() somewhere is just a less
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__/ | http://www.hjp.at/ | -- Olaf Kirch on bugtraq 2000-08-07
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