Imad

[Anthony E. Greene]

On Mon, 23 Jul 2001, Rich wrote:
>  Yes, but specifically what I was talking about was his
>insinuation that the fine GnuPG developers have "altered" the
>binary W32 version.
>
> Here is his quote (as much as I didn't want this to devolve into
>a "he said she said" kind of thing):
>
>----------------------------8<------------------------------
>
>OK, please do yourself a favor.
>Download the offcial binary distribution of GnuPG for windows.
>Also download the official source code distribution of GnuPG.
>Compile it yourself, and compare it with the official binary
>distribution, and by all means do let us all know what your findings are.
>And we will go on from there for the other juicy stuff...
>
>----------------------------8<------------------------------

That is ridiculous. No two randomly chosen machines will produce the
same binary. There are too many compiler options and environmental
variables to expect a perfect match.

Tony
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