Re: GnuPG stands for ...?
At 09:23 AM 12/25/99 -0800, Fish Smith wrote:
>Okay, if PGP stands for Pretty Good Privacy, does that
>mean GnuPG stands for GNU Pretty Good? I don't know
>how this title conveys encryption...
My guess is that the full name is recursive AND a palindrome.
GnuPGPunG, folded back over itself (in the manner of a palindrome)
becomed GnuPG. It could stand for GNU Pretty Good Privacy UNder GNU
or, perhaps, GNU Pretty Good Privacy Uses Namesake GNU. That's my
theory :-)
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