Typos in README
Florian Weimer
fw at deneb.enyo.de
Wed Oct 16 14:28:02 CEST 2002
Here are a couple of fixes for the README file.
--- README.~1.71.~ Sun Sep 22 12:56:50 2002
+++ README Thu Oct 10 21:27:29 2002
@@ -33,12 +33,13 @@
compatible with PGP2 versions. PGP 2.x uses IDEA (which is patented
worldwide).
- The default algorithms are DSA and ElGamal. ElGamal for signing
- is still available, but because of the larger size of such
- signatures it is deprecated (Please note that the GnuPG
- implementation of ElGamal signatures is *not* insecure). Symmetric
- algorithms are: AES, 3DES, Blowfish, CAST5 and Twofish
- Digest algorithms available are MD5, RIPEMD160 and SHA1.
+ The default algorithms are DSA and ElGamal, but RSA is also
+ supported. ElGamal for signing is still available, but because of
+ the larger size of such signatures it is deprecated (Please note
+ that the GnuPG implementation of ElGamal signatures is *not*
+ insecure). Symmetric algorithms are: AES, 3DES, Blowfish, CAST5
+ and Twofish. Digest algorithms available are MD5, RIPEMD160 and
+ SHA1.
Installation
@@ -46,7 +47,7 @@
Please read the file INSTALL and the sections in this file
related to the installation. Here is a quick summary:
- 1) Check that you have unmodified sources. The below on how
+ 1) Check that you have unmodified sources. See below on how
to do this. Don't skip it - this is an important step!
2) Unpack the TAR. With GNU tar you can do it this way:
@@ -92,7 +93,7 @@
$ gpg --fingerprint 0x57548DCD
- with the elsewhere published fingerprint
+ with the fingerprint published elsewhere.
Please note, that you have to use an old version of GnuPG to
do all this stuff. *Never* use the version which you are going
@@ -547,9 +548,10 @@
make. Try gmake or grab the sources from a GNU archive and
install them.
- On some OSF you may get unresolved externals. This is a libtool
- problem and the workaround is to manually remove all the "-lc -lz"
- but the last one from the linker line and execute them manually.
+ On some OSF systems you may get unresolved externals. This is a
+ libtool problem and the workaround is to manually remove all the
+ "-lc -lz" but the last one from the linker line and execute them
+ manually.
On some architectures you see warnings like:
longlong.h:175: warning: function declaration isn't a prototype
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