GnuPG and the OpenPGP.org web site

Philip Zimmermann prz@mit.edu
Thu Mar 20 11:16:27 2003


I just updated the download section of the openpgp.org web site.  It 
had not been updated for about two years.  It really needs more links 
for more source code.  If anyone wants to send me info about other 
products or projects in the openpgp arena, I could use the help.  -prz


On Wednesday, Mar 19, 2003, at 05:36 US/Pacific, Anthony E. Greene 
wrote:

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> Mr. Zimmermann,
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> I have been a PGP user and privacy advocate for years. I am bothered by
> the omission of a link to GnuPG on the Download page of the OpenPGP.org
> web site.  GnuPG is the second most widely used OpenPGP application, 
> and
> the only one that ships with an operating system (actually, I believe 
> it
> ships with more than one OS). There are email clients that are designed
> specifically to include support for GnuPG. GnuPG, as implied by it's 
> name,
> is part of the GNU Project, and is not going to go away anytime soon.
>
> The omission of GnuPG may indeed be a simple human omission on an old
> seldom-updated site, but the situation has endured for too long. The
> omission now appears to be deliberate, whatever the truth may be.
>
> GnuPG is significant. There should be a link to it on the Download 
> page of
> the OpenPGP web site.
>
> - --
> Anthony E. Greene 
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