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Date: Mon, 13 Jun 1994 01:10:58 -0400 (EDT)
From: simons@peti.gun.de (Peter Simons) (CSAA)
To: announce@cs.ucdavis.edu (CSAA-Submissions)
Subject: (CSAA) PGPAmiga 2.3a.3
Status: RO
TITLE
Pretty Good Privacy (PGP)
VERSION
Version 2.3a patchlevel 3
AUTHOR
Original version written by Colin Plumb and various contributors
Amiga port and enhancements by Peter Simons <simons@peti.GUN.de>
DESCRIPTION
Pretty Good Privacy (PGP), from Phil's Pretty Good Software, is
a high security cryptographic software application for MSDOS,
Unix, VAX/VMS, Amiga and other computers. PGP allows people to
exchange files or messages with privacy, authentication, and
convenience. Privacy means that only those intended to receive a
message can read it. Authentication means that messages that
appear to be from a particular person can only have originated
from that person. Convenience means that privacy and
authentication are provided without the hassles of managing keys
associated with conventional cryptographic software. No secure
channels are needed to exchange keys between users, which makes
PGP much easier to use. This is because PGP is based on a powerful
new technology called "public key" cryptography. And PGP performs
the public-key functions faster than most other software
implementations. PGP is public key cryptography for the masses.
Please take note that the archive contains a readme file, with
checksums for ALL files in the distribution and is signed with my
key! Please be careful, if this file is missing or rigged!
CHANGES
This version includes many changes compared to the original 2.3a
release:
- modified PGP to recognize local (SET vs. SETENV) shell
variables, too. (Only available under OS 2.04 or later!)
- the executable is now pure and may be made resident
- converted the documentation to AmigaGuide-format.
- added an Installer script (Thanks to Jacob Ellis!!)
- Whenever PGP needs user input, it will check whether the current
standard input is interactive. This will avoid infinite loops
and crashes when started with "PGP -f <test". If the standard
input is not interactive, PGP will pop up an requester asking
for the string.
- PGP is able to read its commandline from a file! (Note: The
Amiga version is the _only_ PGP version that has this
capability. :->)
- I modified PGP to display the last 32 bit of the internal key
ID, like PGP 2.6 does. This reduces the chance of ID-collision.
- PGP 2.3a.3 can read and write encrypted texts or signatures in
PGP 2.6's packet format.
NOTES
A mailing list concerning PGPAmiga has been created on
peti.GUN.de. To subscribe, send e-mail to listserv@peti.GUN.de
with "ADD your_address PGPAmiga" in the message body. You may add
"HELP" in the next line to receive a command overview of ListSERV.
SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS
none
LEGALITY
This version of PGP is perfectly legal anywhere besides the
United States of America and Canada. US citizens will have to wait
until the Amiga version of PGP 2.6 is finished. An announcement
will be made here, too.
HOST NAME
Any Aminet host, i.e. ftp.uni-kl.de (131.246.9.95).
DIRECTORY
/pub/aminet/util/crypt/
FILE NAMES
PGPAmi23a_3.lha
PGPAmi23a3_src.lha
DISTRIBUTABILITY
GNU General Public License
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