PGP & GPG compatibility

[Lucky Green]

On Sat, 9 Feb 2002, Russell Nelson wrote:

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> Werner Koch writes:
>  > Things would get much better if a PGP 2 version with support for CAST5
>  > would get more into use.  [ etc. ]
>
> I know that you're working hard, Werner, but I believe that the recent
> few years have destroyed the PGP brandname.  I think the only
> worthwhile way forward is to create a cryptographic email standard de
> novo, which is free of export, trademark, and patent problems.

I believe such a standard already exists. It is called S/MIME. Best of
all, this email encryption standard is supported out-of-the-box by the
overwhelming majority of deployed MUA's in the world.

-- Lucky Green <shamrock at cypherpunks.to>


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