Re: free PGP (Was: Re: are md5sums mandatory for all packages?)
On Sun, Dec 21 1997 13:33 +0200 Kai Henningsen writes:
> You _do_ know that there's a free PGP version, right? (The "u[i[n]]"
> series.) See the international PGP home page. It's derived from very early
> PGP versions that were still free. Incidentally, the guy who did the last
> hacks on it lives in the same city as I do :-)
Isn't the problem with PGP (even the free version), that it uses IDEA by
default, which is a very secure algorithm, but unfortunately only gratis
for non-commercial use?
The location of PGP, namely the non-us section, is IMO not the problem
(but I live in Europe :)
David
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