On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 11:33:25AM -0500, Tom Duerbusch wrote:
> My impression is that gpg is basically the same as pgp with the
> exception that gpg is fully in the public domain.
GnuPG is not in the public domain, it is copyrighted by the Free Software
Foundation and licensed under the GPL.
> Great intent...
>
> But, just how compatable are they? I haven't found any statement in
> this area.
Where did you look? Question 1.2 in the GnuPG FAQ says:
1.2) Is GnuPG compatible with PGP?
In general, yes. GnuPG and newer PGP releases should be implementing
the OpenPGP standard. But there are some interoperability problems.
See question 5.1 for details.
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- mdz
