From: Michele Andreoli (m.andreoli@tin.it)
Date: Wed Nov 08 2000 - 21:20:42 CET
On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 07:42:18PM +0100, Gerrit Lammert nicely wrote:
> Hi Michele, Giovanni,
>
>
> > Talking about PGP, why not using the GNU alternative Gnupg? it
> > works exactly like PGP and is able to use/import keys from PGP.
> > It's just a suggestion :)
>
> Yes, that might be a good idea. I recently watched a report (german tv)
> about PGP and that (as it now belongs to symantec if i recall correct) some
> experts in matter of privacy are courious about PGP. They think the
> US-government might have forced symantec (or whoever) to install a backdoor,
> enableing the FBI (or NSA...) to decode all PGP-encripted messages.
This is an historic PGP question. It take place for us only if you
suspect that the Debian PGP-international source that I used,
is altered in some way from the Philiph Zimmermann "Pretty Good Software Inc."
original forge.
>This can
> not be the case with GnuPGP (as it is open source obviously).
> All this might be paranoia, but there is a groupthat is (somehow related to
> the german government who supports GnuPGP because of this rumours.
>
> But, if you only want to implement is as a kind of test, this doesn't metter
> at all...
>
The "National Security Agency" that looks inside the muLinux user's
email messages! We are just lucky if the poor muLinux user is *really* able
to send some message out of its modem, plaintext or encrypted :-)
Anycase, If someone can compile GnuPGP with libc5 and sent it to me,
I will take a look. Otherwise, an enourmous static-linked binary will be
added ....
Michele
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