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Re: OT: Is pgp 2.6.X considered old?



Thanks for the quick replies.  There is no "pgp" link to pgp5.  I see a set
of executable links from the manpage.  

Mutt expects "pgp."  What is the best approach to integrate these together? 

Kenward


On Sun, May 21, 2000 at 11:49:48AM -0700, Eric Hanchrow wrote:
> >>>>> "Kenward" == Kenward Vaughan <kaynjay@igalaxy.net> writes:
> 
>     Kenward> I just installed pgp last night, read some mail this AM,
>     Kenward> and got a "need newer pgp version" message from a tagged
>     Kenward> post.  I haven't used pgp before, so don't know if the
>     Kenward> "older" version is considered really old now.  Can
>     Kenward> someone toss the answer to this my way, please?
> 
> The answer is "yes".
> 
> If you want to use PGP, consider version 5 (it lives in the Debian
> package named `pgp5i').  On the other hand, you might consider GnuPG
> instead -- it's *almost* completely compatible with PGP (alas, there
> are some incompatibilities with PGP version 2), and is entirely free.
> (It's in package `gnupg').
> 
> -- 
> PGP Fingerprint: 3E7B A3F3 96CA 8958 ACC5  C8BD 6337 0041 C01C 5276
> 



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