HOWTO on interfacing with gnupg/pgp?
Johan Wevers
johanw@vulcan.xs4all.nl
Mon Jun 18 21:49:02 2001
Werner Koch wrote:
> By still using IDEA you are giving the proponents of software patents
> a momentum
Only if you pay for it. :-)
> [1] A very old version of PGP 2 used to be under the GPL but it used
> to be encumbered by some further restrctions.
I just checked the source of pgp 2.3a, the last version before political
nonsense started adding deliberate incompatibilities. This version is under
the GPL, but I can't find any additional restrictions. The doc's don't say
it's not allowed to export it from the USA, only that one should not ask PRZ
for a copy.
BTW, what are the security issues that pgp 2 suffers and gnupg solves?
The only one I can think of is the usage of secure memory.
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