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Re: pgp in Debian: obsolete?



On Sat, Aug 07, 2004 at 09:17:38PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
> Both PGP 5 and 6.5 have security issues which haven't been fixed
> upstream (because there isn't any upstream anymore).  There are some
> pirated versions of 6.5.8 that incorporate fixes, but Debian certainly
> shouldn't encourage distribution of them.

Hmm.

Do you have links to documentation of these issues or where to get the
pirated versions? How pirated/illegal are they?

License permitting, I could maybe take patches from them.

Ian.

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