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Re: Is PGP broken?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (L. Sassaman)
Mon Dec 4 00:55:27 2000
Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2000 21:33:07 -0800 (PST)
From: "L. Sassaman" <rabbi@quickie.net>
To: "Jay D. Dyson" <jdyson@treachery.net>
Cc: Cryptography List <cryptography@c2.net>
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On Sun, 3 Dec 2000, Jay D. Dyson wrote:
> >
> > ??? 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.
You're running PGP 2.6.2. I was (and I assume Will was also) referring to
the current commercially available versions of PGP. I don't know what Ben
is running, but I am sure it's not PGP 6.5.8 or 7.0.
Support for the platforms you mentioned got lost sometime after NAI
absorbed PGP. I think that PGP 5.0 even had a larger supported platform
list than current versions of PGP do.
Ignoring the non-Unix platforms, PGP 6.5.8 is available for AIX, HP-UX,
RedHat Linux (though it will run on most Linux versions), and Solaris
only.
You could, or course, download the source code from pgpi.com and port PGP
to your favorite OS, but you may run into trouble if you try to distribute
your changes. (A well known Internet security company ported PGP to a
development release of Mac OS X, and was told by NAI that it could not
distribute the patch. Consequently, there is still not support for this
platform.)
- --Len.
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L. Sassaman
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