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Re: Is PGP broken?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ben Laurie)
Sun Dec 3 11:48:20 2000
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Date: Sun, 03 Dec 2000 00:07:33 +0000
From: Ben Laurie <ben@algroup.co.uk>
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To: "L. Sassaman" <rabbi@quickie.net>
Cc: Adam Back <adam@cypherspace.org>, nelson@crynwr.com, cryptography@c2.net
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"L. Sassaman" wrote:
> PGP will also never have the platform coverage that open source software
> can have. In addition to all the platforms (except Macintosh) that PGP
> supports, GnuPG runs on Irix, True64, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, BSD/OS,
> SCO, SunOS, and others. That's not PGP's fault; it's just the nature of
> commercial vs. open source software. But to say that PGP runs on "nearly
> all platforms" is misleading.
??? I have PGP running on FreeBSD. Did I miss something?
Cheers,
Ben.
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