Re: PGP

[Joel Klecker <jk@espy.org>]

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Regarding "Re: PGP" of 03:37 PM -0800 1997-12-04, Pete Harlan wrote:
>Sorry for the off-topic.  I hope nobody bothers to package this up for
>Debian unless source is released.  There, now it's on-topic.
>
>And please correct me if source for 5.0 is available...

It is available, just only in book form. This is a "cover your ass" move by
PGP as cryptographic code can be legally exported from the US if it is not
"machine readable".

The source at <http://www.pgpi.com/> is almost exactly the same as the
source used to build the "US version" at the MIT site, the only difference
is that the "US version" uses RSAREF, to avoid the patent issues.
I have seen versions of PGP 2.6.3i that were legal in the US, because they
were compiled with RSAREF instead of MPILIB.
It must be possible to do this with the PGP 5 code base as well.

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Joel "Espy" Klecker
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