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Re: PGP & GPG compatibility
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lucky Green)
Sat Feb 9 16:50:14 2002
Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2002 22:36:39 +0100 (CET)
From: Lucky Green <shamrock@cypherpunks.to>
To: cryptography@wasabisystems.com
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On Sat, 9 Feb 2002, Russell Nelson wrote:
>
> X-UID: 139934
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> Werner Koch writes:
> > Things would get much better if a PGP 2 version with support for CAST5
> > would get more into use. [ etc. ]
>
> I know that you're working hard, Werner, but I believe that the recent
> few years have destroyed the PGP brandname. I think the only
> worthwhile way forward is to create a cryptographic email standard de
> novo, which is free of export, trademark, and patent problems.
I believe such a standard already exists. It is called S/MIME. Best of
all, this email encryption standard is supported out-of-the-box by the
overwhelming majority of deployed MUA's in the world.
-- Lucky Green <shamrock@cypherpunks.to>
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