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[Werner Koch]

On Tue, 24 Oct 2000, Wayne Davis wrote:

> The folks ate NAI/PGP have made the assertion that GPG has taken PGP and
> reverse engineered it in order to obtain the source fo GPG.
> Can you provide the GPG side of this story?

What?  Please give me an URL, so that I get something to laugh on.

They should go to the CVS and follow the path of the GnuPG
development since December 1997.  Although I did know the code of
PGP 2, I have not looked at the PGP 5 code for a long time.  The data
formats of PGP 5 used to be proprietary in the beginning, and so I
started with RFC1991 and added my own extensions.  Later OpenPGP
came out and I dropped most of my private extensions to RFC1991
(which describes the PGP 2 data format).

  Werner

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