Paul Bradley wrote:
I'll bet you can't find 10 out of 1,000 users who have read the total source, let alone comprehended and validated it. Depending on the system, compiler and version of PGP, compilation may or may not function as expected.
I class myself as quite an experience programmer (though I haven`t done a lot of code recently) but I spent several days weeding through the bugs and it still wouldn`t compile on Borland C++ V4.51 so I just read the core code and hoped the executable was really derived from that code. I`m normally more paranoid than that but I just don`t have the time to spend getting borland to compile it. It won`t even compile on my system with the borland makefile than comes with PGP.
Yet another success (NOT!) story for PGP. I wonder how many people on this list would be willing to bet something *really* important to them on the security of PGP?