Free software replacements for PGP and SSH (was: Re: are md5sums mandatory for all packages?)
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Regarding "Re: are md5sums mandatory for all packages?" of 10:31 AM -0800
1997-12-19, Scott Ellis wrote:
>And the instant someone provides us with free software equivilant to ssh
>or pgp, we'll move to use it. We need the functionality, unfortunatly
>sometimes you have to use what you can get.
Incidentally, I found projects that are working on free software
replacements for pgp and ssh.
The PGP replacement is called G10, and the web page for that is at
<http://www.d.shuttle.de/isil/g10.html>.
Here is the status from the web page:
"Status
Done:
create signatures and detached signatures.
checking signatures (data and keys).
encrypt and decrypt (public key and conventional).
List and check keyrings
Print fingerprints
Self signatures are added to generated keys.
RSA and ElGamal Key generation.
Ripe-MD-160 used for hashing.
Works inside a pipe w/o any temporary files.
autoconf/configure works.
using armor files works.
compressing stuff implemented.
Some enhancements to make it somewhat compatible
with the OpenPGP draft.
Added SHA-1.
Added configuration stuff (options file)
Not yet done:
Trust packets.
Keyring management (partly done)
Old style signatures
Documentation.
DSA, subkeys etc.
and, and, and ...."
The ssh "replacement: is called psst and the web page for it is at
<http://www.net.lut.ac.uk/psst/>.
The web page has this to say about it:
"Why do this ? Well, ssh is great - but it's not free. This is pretty
reasonable, since the developers do need to pay the rent, buy beer and
pizza, and so on. Many people believe that there should be a free
version, so as to encourage the spread of strong cryptography. As it
happens, ssh is currently going through the Internet standardisation
process - which requires a second independent and interoperable
implementation in order for a protocol to become a standard. So, it's
good for everyone that we have a go at this."
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Joel "Espy" Klecker Debian GNU/Linux Developer <mailto:jk@espy.org>
Debian GNU/Linux <http://www.debian.org/>
PGP Fingerprint (RSA Key): 12 92 9C E4 60 DF 62 CD FC AD 18 47 9A 74 E7 D1
Apple Flavored Unix <http://www.espy.org/apple-flavored-unix/>
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