On Wed, May 24, 2000 at 08:24:53PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On 23 May, Rick Welykochy wrote:
> > Oops ... I remember the original post. And I thought ... what is gpg?
> > GNU Privacy Good?
gnu privacy guard
in the true gnu vs pre-gnu tradition gpg is a much better pgp. it has
several improvements:
saner command line options (and --help actually lists them all)
easily extensible to new hash algorithms (run-time loaded libraries)
** supports multiple public keys **
can directly access keyservers to upload/download keys for you
the multiple keyring bit was enough to completely convince me - now
you can have a company wide keyring in a shared location, and not have
to keep copying keys into your own pubring
> I can't recall if there is a pgpdisk (pgpmount?) for Linux.
i hope it doesn't use standard pgp algorithms (public key) for
encrypting the disk..
similar (but unrelated to pgp) encrypted disk stuff for linux:
cfs (acts as an nfs server, but encrypts on disk)
"losetup -e" stuff (with kernel crypto patches) gives you an
encrypted loopback mount
a few others i can't remember
> > BTW: I'm quite happy with pgp and use it all the time.
> Everyone should have a copy of pgp on their machine.
i thoroughly recommend that everyone switches to gpg.
with the rsa and idea extensions loaded it supports pgp keys anyway..
with this, you won't even have to change your keyrings:
cat > ~/.gnupg/options <<EOF
load-extension rsa
load-extension idea
keyring ~/.pgp/pubring.pgp
keyring pubring.gpg
secret-keyring ~/.pgp/secring.pgp
secret-keyring secring.gpg
EOF
(apt-get install gnupg gpg-idea gpg-rsa)
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- Gus
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