1998-12-12 - Re: PGP Inc has gone to the dogs

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From: “William H. Geiger III” <whgiii@openpgp.net>
To: Reeza! <howree@cable.navy.mil>
Message Hash: 156bf0ea81bd057082c9fb586b9ee16af797d63cad41a8aca35231b7af3e67c7
Message ID: <199812120127.UAA005.88@whgiii>
Reply To: <3.0.5.32.19981212031015.00a74d90@205.83.192.13>
UTC Datetime: 1998-12-12 03:06:25 UTC
Raw Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1998 11:06:25 +0800

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From: "William H. Geiger III" <whgiii@openpgp.net>
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1998 11:06:25 +0800
To: Reeza! <howree@cable.navy.mil>
Subject: Re: PGP Inc has gone to the dogs
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In <3.0.5.32.19981212031015.00a74d90@205.83.192.13>, on 12/12/98 
   at 03:10 AM, Reeza! <howree@cable.navy.mil> said:

>Cleaning out the dross, I found this.

>What was "broken" in pgp50?


In doing my port of 5.0 to OS/2 I found and patched a couple of minor bugs
in pgp, none of them security related. I don't know what Adam is refering
to as "broken" except perhaps the change in the commandline so 5.0 doesn't
work with 2.6.x scripts & plugins.



>At 10:16 AM 10/18/98 +0100, Adam Back wrote:
>>
>>PGP Inc has taken leave of it's sense.  Masses of untrue claims on web
>>pages (take a look at examples below), no RSA support, no unix
>>versions (other than old broken pgp50).


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William H. Geiger III  http://www.openpgp.net
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Author of E-Secure - PGP Front End for MR/2 Ice
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Tag-O-Matic: DOS=HIGH? I knew it was on something...

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