Re: Which PGP?
On Thu, Oct 15, 1998 at 03:34:54PM -0700, Joseph Carter wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 15, 1998 at 03:08:46PM +0100, Dave Swegen wrote:
> > Out of curiosity, which version of PGP is the debian de facto standard.
> > I'm currently using v5, but I've seen a number of people use 2.6...
>
> The Debian standard is RSA/IDEA (2.6.x compatible) keys, though Debian is
> slowly adjusting to include gpg (5.x compatible plus more and it's free,
> with the ability to add RSA and IDEA as modules if you don't mind that
> they're non-free due to patent BS)
In case anyone was expecting me to upload these modules, the IDEA module
is strongly discouraged by the gpg author (patented in at least Japan, US,
and Europe until 2011), and I've decided for immigration reasons not to get
involved in crypto packages. The RSA module could be packaged separately
for compatibility with the existing PGP keyring, IDEA isn't necessary.
The modules are easy to compile yourself, see the /usr/doc/gnupg for ftp
site.
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