Alexander, This is a fairly condescending reply given that the license statement for PGP is present on every download screen from which it is available. Careful not to hurt my feelings please :( After all, I went to a lot of trouble looking all these things up very carefully when I implemented my own PHP script for encrypting an email message.
Anyway, I'm sure GnuPG is great too, but as with PGP it also is not part of most standard distributions of Linux/Unix and as a result, may not be present on a production server (where downloading and installing new packages may not be an option.) OpenSSL, on the other hand, is available on virtuall all systems since it is required for https servers. -----Original Message----- From: Alexander Skwar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 2:52 PM To: Drew Lopucki Cc: Leif K-Brooks; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PHP] Anybody have a function to encode a string? ğDrew LopuckiĞ sagte am 2002-03-19 um 10:25:02 -0500 : > Lots of people will tell you to use PGP. However since PGP is not *free*, > in that you cannot use it for commercial purposes without a license, I avoid > it. Also it has to be downloaded and installed as most systems do not Well, use GnuPG. Then you can use "PGP". And what you stated above is also plain wrong. You might need some sort of license for the more obscure uses (like VPN and thus), but for encryption, PGP is freely available. And lastly, even if you were willing to pay money, I would not recommend PGP to anyone, as NA has stopped developing PGP and is trying to sell it. PGP is dead - long live GnuPG! Alexander Skwar -- How to quote: http://learn.to/quote (german) http://quote.6x.to (english) Homepage: http://www.iso-top.de | Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] iso-top.de - Die günstige Art an Linux Distributionen zu kommen Uptime: 2 days 8 hours 43 minutes -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
