[8182] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: Is PGP broken?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay D. Dyson)
Mon Dec 4 00:55:27 2000
Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2000 21:51:30 -0800 (PST)
From: "Jay D. Dyson" <jdyson@treachery.net>
To: Cryptography List <cryptography@c2.net>
Cc: "L. Sassaman" <rabbi@quickie.net>
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On Sun, 3 Dec 2000, L. Sassaman wrote:
> > 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.
That's a fair bet. I wasn't aware we were discussing specific
versions or the NAI flavor of PGP.
> 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.
I find that to be a fault of NAI rather than a fault of PGP.
> 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.)
That's highly unfortunate. But, again, that's the fault of NAI
rather than PGP. I say we keep the crosshairs where they belong.
- -Jay
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