Some PGP problems
Hi, I'm trying to decode a PGP file that was created with Ver 2.6. At this time, I thought that my older ver 2.1c (Running on a Mac) would at least be able to decrypt something made from a higher version, running on a PC. Apparently that is not so. So, the next thing I did, or what any self respecting Cypherpunk might so, is to go out on the net and look for a later version to FTP> Well, after discovering that soda.berkeley.edu don't exist anymore, I eventually found the ftp site where it lives. ftp.csua.berkeley.edu. I learn that Mac PGP2.3 exists, but NO version 2.6 exists for the Mac. Is that true? If not, then where can I get a copy, so I can decode a message created with 2.6? If ver 2.3 will decode a message encoded with 2.6, then I'm faced with how I can extract this Mac file which has a .gz extension. Binhex don't seem to decode it. So, I now got this file named "macpgp2.3.cpt.hqx.gz" on my Mac. Was I supposed to have used some special UNIX itility to convert the .gz thingie first? Please emlighten this confused cypherpunker!!! :-) Or will I even have to do all of this because 2.3 is incompatable with 2.6. C. Crunch
There are two versions of MacPGP that use RSAREF, and are thus legal & kosher, plus Viacrypts. The free ones are MIT, and 2.6.2ca. The MIT one doesn't support Apple Events. The Apple event supporting PGP's can be driven by a menu interface called the MacPGP kit. 2.3 is not fully compatible with 2.6; I use 2.6.2 with the kit. MIT: telnet net-dist.mit.edu, login as getpgp server.netcom.com:/pub/gr/grady/PGP/MacPGP262b1.2.sea.hqx.asc) duke.bwh.harvard.edu:/pub/adam/mcip/MacPGPKit.hqx You were supposed to use gunzip (GNU's unzip) to unzip, but Stufit deluxe will handle it; just tell Stuffit its a zipped file. Crunch asked: | I learn that Mac PGP2.3 exists, but NO version 2.6 | exists for the Mac. Is that true? If not, then | where can I get a copy, so I can decode a message | created with 2.6? If ver 2.3 will decode a message | encoded with 2.6, then I'm faced with how I can | extract this Mac file which has a .gz extension. | Binhex don't seem to decode it. So, I now got this | file named "macpgp2.3.cpt.hqx.gz" on my Mac. Was | I supposed to have used some special UNIX itility to | convert the .gz thingie first? Please emlighten | this confused cypherpunker!!! :-) Or will I even have | to do all of this because 2.3 is incompatable with 2.6. -- "It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once." -Hume
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