On Sun, 22 Oct 2000, Mark Weaver wrote:

- PGP sure is free. I'm running right now on my machine. Both PGPcmndln and
- PGP4Pine. Both operate quite well on this Mandrake machine.

PGP works fine on Linux and there are Freeware versions.  It is a good
program.  However, now that the RSA patent has expired, I can see no good
reasons to continue to use PGP unless I needed compatibility with IDEA.  
An employer might want to use PGP because of the ADK feature but for
personal use that is obviously not a desired feature.  I switched to gnupg
at version 1.0.0 and have been happy with it.

The only problem with gnupg so far is that version 1.0.3+ defaults to
twofish and MDC which is not compatible with earlier versions.  Since
1.0.4 added Rijndael support and fixed the multiple signature bug I doubt
this incompatibility will be an issue for long.  I have already posted
updated RPMS for gpg users where I work.

-- 
--Stephen Carville
http://www.heronforge.net/~stephen/gnupgkey.txt
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Living well is the only revenge.  An eye for an eye only leads 
to lots of blind people.
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