[7575] in SIPB bug reports
Re: exmh & PGP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jacob Morzinski)
Tue Apr 25 06:55:50 2000
To: Kev <klmitch@MIT.EDU>
Cc: "Roger A. Roach" <rar@MIT.EDU>, bug-sipb@MIT.EDU
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From: Jacob Morzinski <jmorzins@MIT.EDU>
Date: 25 Apr 2000 06:54:13 -0400
In-Reply-To: Kev's message of "Wed, 22 Mar 2000 09:59:58 -0500"
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<klmitch@MIT.EDU> (Kev) writes:
> pgp 2.6.2 does not support the new header fields added by later versions of
> PGP or the new GPG, and as far as I know, our current version of Exmh doesn't
> know how to use another version of pgp either. Hopefully Exmh on Athena will
> be upgraded soon...
Continuing this mail from a month ago...
While the new exmh does support pgp5, I've discovered that the
Irix installation of pgp5 is broken enough to be harmful.
(People who have non-empty pgp5-format keyrings will be unable
to start exmh on Irix machines, because "pgpk -l" hangs forever.)
I've sent mail to pgp-dev@mit.edu, but there's only three people
on the list (foley, jis, and warlord), and I have no idea of how
much they may care about maintaing the pgp locker.
For now, I've disabled exmh's pgp5 support. I'll re-enable if
the pgp locker's pgp5 installation is fixed.
-Jacob
