FW: Inquiry

[Werner Koch]

On Tue, 16 Oct 2001 10:16:21 -0400, Wilemon, Andrea A (AIT) said:

> GnuPG Users,
> Could you respond to my original inquiry about Self Decrypting Archives?

Self Decrypting Archives are a pretty bad idea; we recently had a long
discussion on this topic.  It is far easier to install gnupg once and
have a secure system this way.  You should find this discussion
somewhere on ttp://lists.gnupg.org.

The reason for the existence of SDAs are probably due to the costs of
most proprietary software (e.g PGP).  The GNU projects provides a way
to download GnuPG without any cost and furthermore you are free to
study, check, modify or redistribute this software.

  Werner

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