On Tue, 17 Feb 1998, Breezy wrote:

Babu Mengelepouti wrote:

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Ken Williams wrote:

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I got pgp 5.0. which will not work with your version. Upgrade man :-)

He's the one who needs to change his version... to 2.6.x

Why use 2.6.x vs 5.0? Is 5.0 not as stable or something? Not as good? What's up?

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PGP v2.6.2 for UNIX is RSA, and cannot decrypt anything crypted with PGP v5.x. v5.0 for UNIX features the DSS/Diffie-Hellman algorithm that all the other 5.x versions have. v5.0 is stable, better, and is basically the current standard. it is more script-friendly and has a better command-line. basically, it really sucks when every encrypted message i have gotten in the past week was encrypted with RSA/DSS and i couldn't decrypt it with the v2.6.2 that is installed at work. due to space limitations on my volume server and our nihilistic copyrighted software policy, my only solution/option at the moment is to bring my laptop to work just for message decryption. i've sent in a software request for a PGP upgrade on the network, but due to the expensive PGP licensing agreements and the fact that we have close to 50,000 active users, i don't expect anything to be done. guess state employees don't have the right to privacy any more huh? and neither do the studnets here for that matter... TATTOOMAN work disclaimer: i lied and i'm legally insane.