PGP & GPG compatibility

Derek Atkins warlord at MIT.EDU
Tue Jan 15 15:53:59 EST 2002


Matt Crawford <crawdad at fnal.gov> writes:

> > Is there even development on the PGP (product) line?  AFAIK
> > they (NAI) have not release PGP 7.x in source form.  Worse, there
> > are a couple of bugs I found in 6.5.8 when I was porting it
> > to Tru64, but who knows if anyone is listening over at NAI.
> 
> Years ago I bought a few copies of commercial PGP with support.  I
> sent in three separate bug reports, some of them dead simple to
> reproduce, and never got anything back except placebo talk.

I think people used to get better support when I personally answered
pgp-bugs at mit.edu.  I stopped providing that service due to lack of
time, and I'm afraid that PGP support went out the window.  From my
perspective, NAI never provided any support for PGP -- even when I
submitting patches, they would ignore them.

Even worse, when I *DID* respond to someone on pgp-bugs, I'd get a
response from NAI saying that they couldn't help me!  Yes, those
bozos actually responded to my _answer_ with a "we cannot help you"
message.  Sigh.

So, no, I'm not surprised to hear this from an actual paying customer.

-derek

-- 
       Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
       Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board  (SIPB)
       URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/    PP-ASEL-IA     N1NWH
       warlord at MIT.EDU                        PGP key available



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