Re: PGP Which?
On Wed, 28 Jan 1998 tko@westgac3.dragon.com wrote:
: Ben Pfaff writes:
: >
: > pinepgp depends on pgp and i went to ftp.de.debian.org and i found pgp_i
: > and pgp_us. Which one shoud i pick? in any case i think that dpkg will
: > complain.
: >
: > If you are inside the U.S. you must use pgp-us. Otherwise, use pgp-i.
:
: Just curious, but why "must" a US based site use pgp-us?
Because it's "illegal" to use the RSA algorithm found in pgp-i within
the US. Instead, you "must" use the RSAREF implementation. IIRC, this
is all documented in the readmes, etc. found in either package.
If you don't care about the current laws then it's not an issue for you.
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