On Sun, May 21, 2000 at 11:41:12 -0700, Kenward Vaughan wrote: > I just installed pgp last night, read some mail this AM, and got a "need > newer pgp version" message from a tagged post. I haven't used pgp before, > so don't know if the "older" version is considered really old now.
More or less. You may want to consider using GnuPG, the GNU Privacy Guard, which is a free software implementation of the ideas behind PGP and which doesn't rely on patented algorithms (RSA in the US, IDEA in Europe). If you need backward compatibility with PGP2, have a look at the gpg-rsa and gpg-idea packages. HTH, Ray -- Obsig: developing a new sig