you really ought to be more thoughtful about what and how you write on the cypherpunks list...

The how is referring to not double spacing isn't it. Sorry, I've been up for the last couple of days and didn't even realize it. What do you mean what I write about?

anyway, the PGP code from MIT should compile on nearly all unix machines. i'm not sure it will compile with a g++ compiler though. all unix type machines should have uncompress, tar, (g)cc. just get the source from MIT.

I am not an idiot. I must have downloaded PGP from about 20 million different places. They are all either missing files, some times the darn code won't compile, or when I "tar xvf" half of the files bring up an error and the computer says it can not create the file. I'll try the address that you've sent. Hopefully I will have better luck. In the persuit of constructing a stable cryptographic program that uses PGP what features should be included. Obviously all of the ones that PGP has and encrypting/decrypting e-mail but what else?