What is the recommended variant of PGP.

[Alan Olsen]

Gnu Privacy Guard is an Open Source PGP replacement.

http://www.gnupg.org/ is the main site for the code.

I have not examined interoperability with older versions of PGP though.
(I will be doing that soon though.)

On Sat, 17 Mar 2001, James A. Donald wrote:

> Although I (naturally biased) prefer to use Cypto Kng, I recently needed to 
> use pgp, so I decided to upgrade.
> 
> I went to PGP.com.  Their freeware PGP is fourteen megabytes of mystery code.
> 
> 
> Something that big and mysterious does not make me feel secure.  My current 
> pgp.exe is 250K, for which I have source code, source code that I have 
> looked at.  The program performs functions that I understand, in ways that 
> I understand.
> 
> What is the recommended PGP?
> 
> 

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