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Re: PGP & GPG compatibility
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)
Tue Jan 15 15:56:36 2002
To: Matt Crawford <crawdad@fnal.gov>
Cc: Werner Koch <wk@gnupg.org>, cryptography@wasabisystems.com
From: Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>
Date: 15 Jan 2002 15:53:59 -0500
In-Reply-To: <200201152049.g0FKn1Z13310@gungnir.fnal.gov>
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Matt Crawford <crawdad@fnal.gov> writes:
> > Is there even development on the PGP (product) line? AFAIK
> > they (NAI) have not release PGP 7.x in source form. Worse, there
> > are a couple of bugs I found in 6.5.8 when I was porting it
> > to Tru64, but who knows if anyone is listening over at NAI.
>
> Years ago I bought a few copies of commercial PGP with support. I
> sent in three separate bug reports, some of them dead simple to
> reproduce, and never got anything back except placebo talk.
I think people used to get better support when I personally answered
pgp-bugs@mit.edu. I stopped providing that service due to lack of
time, and I'm afraid that PGP support went out the window. From my
perspective, NAI never provided any support for PGP -- even when I
submitting patches, they would ignore them.
Even worse, when I *DID* respond to someone on pgp-bugs, I'd get a
response from NAI saying that they couldn't help me! Yes, those
bozos actually responded to my _answer_ with a "we cannot help you"
message. Sigh.
So, no, I'm not surprised to hear this from an actual paying customer.
-derek
--
Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB)
URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/ PP-ASEL-IA N1NWH
warlord@MIT.EDU PGP key available
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