Fw: my thoughts for this list

[Bill Stewart]

At 12:19 PM 7/27/98 -0400, mgraffam at mhv.net wrote:

>GPG = GNU Privacy Guard.
>
>GPG is a PGP work-a-like .. doesn't support RSA (yet) due to the patents,
>but once they run out, GPG will use it. I think it uses Blowfish (and
>CAST?) for the symmetric algorithms, and probably 3DES too. I dunno
>about IDEA .. I have my doubts due to the patents. 

Actually, GPG has been a PGP-look-similar-but-not-interoperate-like
rather tha a workalike.  Unless GPG has been updated lately,
GPG keys tend to do Very Crashy Things to my PGP 5.5.x
				Thanks! 
					Bill
Bill Stewart, bill.stewart at pobox.com
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