Dear Paul- This is quite correct. I pointed out that for commercial applications GNuPG was available, though I mangled the addresses. My main gripe against GPG is that its attitude of pushing the edges while not worrying about compatibility. Also while being in development for about 3 years, none of the authors feel its necessary for a consistent, official, average user friendly GUI. There are several front ends available, but their reliability in various operating environments differ, as do the openness of their source code.
While many have grown up or have learned comandline, the vast majority of users came after DOS. What is the reason for reverting back to 1992 and looking for a front end that will work on your machine? Many other programs have had much less lead time and provide perfectly good GUIs for Windows and Linux. Is it a techno attitude saying "If you don't know commandline, you should not use strong crypto." ?. I don't know, but it seems purposely designed to be intimidating or inaccessible to the average user. If commandline is your thing, then there are 6.5.8 versions for Linux along with 2.6.3 ia multi 05 which has larger key sizes and the same option choices as GPG. Yours- Ridge ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Hosking" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Tom Geldner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, April 08, 2002 5:13 AM Subject: Re: Alternative to PGP solutions > On Wed, 2002-04-03 at 14:01, Tom Geldner wrote: > > PGP in open source form exists at: > > > > http://www.ipgpp.com/ > > Just to clarify - that is the CKT build of PGP. While very cool, I > believe the CKT builds are based off of the PGPi source code. This is > under a restrictive license. While the source code is available, it is > not Open Source (http://www.opensource.org/docs/definition_plain.html). > The most notable restriction is probably its limitation to > non-commercial use only. > > -- > > .: Paul Hosking . [EMAIL PROTECTED] > .: InfoSec > > .: PGP KeyID: 0x42F93AE9 > .: 7B86 4F79 E496 2775 7945 FA81 8D94 196D 42F9 3AE9 > > >
