OpenPGP.org and GnuPG

pplf pplf@wanadoo.fr
Wed Mar 19 12:18:01 2003


Hello,

The web site www.openpgp.org has no link at all for GnuPG versions on 
his page download : http://www.openpgp.org/resources/downloads.shtml

The links given to download OpenPGP are the pgp.com, pgpi.com, or 
web.mit.edu/network/pgp links.

The name "GnuPG" or GPG appears only at the "Members" page.

I think it is not a good thing : GnuPG is the most famous free OpenPGP 
version and it must be here.

Last week, I had a discussion by e-mail with Philip Zimmermann, and I 
said him some people may think he is misappropriating the name 
"OpenPGP.org", and that he done this because he sells PGP(tm) 
www.pgp.com and FileCrypt www.veridis.com/openpgp/

Philip Zimmermann replied me that the "Download" page at the openpgp.org 
web site was not updated since his beginning (2 or 3 years ago, I 
think), then he said me in another e-mail that I was "insulting" him.

Unfortunately, he didn't changed the "Download" page at www.openpgp.org 
and GnuPG is still not there :-(

Do you think it is a good thing that GnuPG is not shown in the 
www.openpgp.org "Download" page ?

I see by doing a whois that the domain "openpgp.org" is owned by the 
"OpenPGP Research Group".

domain:		OPENPGP.ORG
owner-address:	OpenPGP Research Group
owner-address:	C/O Terje Elde
owner-address:	C/O Jan Pedersen
owner-address:	Granliveien 1
owner-address:	N-1406
owner-address:	Ski
owner-address:	Norway

Do you know if this "OpenPGP Research Group" part of the IETF-OpenPGP 
working group ?

Thanks,

pplf


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