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Re: Is PGP broken?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay D. Dyson)
Sun Dec 3 17:26:23 2000
Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2000 11:22:37 -0800 (PST)
From: "Jay D. Dyson" <jdyson@treachery.net>
To: Cryptography List <cryptography@c2.net>
In-Reply-To: <3A298EC5.838081EF@algroup.co.uk>
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On Sun, 3 Dec 2000, Ben Laurie wrote:
> "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?
Color me puzzled as well. I've successfully compiled PGP and run
on IRIX, *BSD, SCO and SunOS 4 and even OSF (or whatever Digital is
calling their OS these days). I don't think I've ever worked with True64,
so I can't speak to that.
- -Jay
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