[14221] in Cypherpunks
Re: creating a v2.6 of PGP for the REST of us!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Barrett)
Thu May 26 17:29:30 1994
Date: Thu, 26 May 1994 23:24:25 +0200 (GMT+0200)
From: Alan Barrett <barrett@daisy.ee.und.ac.za>
Reply-To: Alan Barrett <barrett@daisy.ee.und.ac.za>
To: "Paul K. Strong" <pauls@dcs.rhbnc.ac.uk>
Cc: cypherpunks list <cypherpunks@toad.com>
In-Reply-To: <24363.9405262031@lt1.cs.rhbnc.ac.uk.>
> If patches are going to be produced for PGP 2.3a for those of us
> outside the USA who wish to send PGP encrypted data to USA users of
> v2.6, will the patches also enable a key from a patched 2.3a to be put
> onto a USA key-server that only accepts v2.6 keys - will the keys be
> labelled as v2.6?
I posted a patch to cypherpunks yesterday that does that.
> I take it Pr0duct Cypher's patch doesn't include this?
I don't think it does.
> Maybe instead of many people producing different patches (some
> of which will be good and some bad) a new version (labelled as
> v2.6euro?) should be released from outside the USA that is derived
> from 2.3a code; therefore producing a version that is no different in
> _appearance_ to MIT's v2.6.
mathew@mantis.co.uk is working my patch plus some other stuff into
a brand new version to be called 2.6ui (where the "ui" stands for
"unofficial international"). It will be packaged as a complete release,
with .tar files and .zip files and .sig files etc. The raw patch file
will also be there.
--apb (Alan Barrett)
