At 04:24 AM 11/2/97 +0100, Anonymous wrote:
But now what? Please someone answer my questions about PGP - it appears that the 5.x versions are not compatible with the 2.x versions which came previous. Is this so? Also, the direction they seem to be heading is in providing more and more non-free GAKked product. But aren't the 2.x and 5.x versions freeware? If so, can't others - a group of individuals - take that source code and build off of that? Piss on these assholes and their licensing fees. It was inevitable, anyway. They are a corporation after all, and the corporations are not on "our" sides.
PGP 5.x is interoperable with PGP 2.6.x as long as you confine yourself to using PGP 2.6.x RSA keys. When you encrypt a message to a mix of RSA (2.6.x) and ElGamal (5.x) keys, you will get a message stating that if you insist on encrypting to the ElGamal keys, then 2.6.x users will not be able to read the message. I agree that the licensing fees posted are outrageous, but at least PGP Inc. did release the source code so you CAN live without their SDK if you are willing to analyze it. How many other companies release source code? How many other companies release freeware products like PGP 5.0? They have to make a few bucks here and there to stay in business, although I think they are pricing themselves out of the market with their SDK fees. PGP Inc. is not the enemy, although maybe some of the folks there ought to have their heads examined. When they implement mandatory CMR/GMR/GAK and stop releasing source code, then I will throw rocks, too. Until then, I will continue to use their products, and sit on my high horse and laugh at their marketing folks... Jonathan Wienke PGP Key Fingerprints: 7484 2FB7 7588 ACD1 3A8F 778A 7407 2928 3312 6597 8258 9A9E D9FA 4878 C245 D245 EAA7 0DCC "If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains set lightly upon you; and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen." -- Samuel Adams "Stupidity is the one arena of of human achievement where most people fulfill their potential." -- Jonathan Wienke RSA export-o-matic: print pack"C*",split/\D+/,`echo "16iII*o\U@{$/=$z;[(pop,pop,unpack"H*",<> )]}\EsMsKsN0[lN*1lK[d2%Sa2/d0<X+d*lMLa^*lN%0]dsXx++lMlN/dsM0<J]dsJxp"|dc`