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Re: PGPfreeware 8.0: Not so good news for crypto newcomers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Gutmann)
Mon Dec 9 09:54:59 2002
Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2002 18:07:16 +1300
From: pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz (Peter Gutmann)
To: cryptography@wasabisystems.com, rdump@river.com
"Richard Johnson" <rdump@river.com> writes:
>To my dismay, the developers of gnupg chose to embed the command line
>processing deep in their software, making doing a proper library-supported
>GUI more difficult. This was the same mistake that made PGP 2 such a bear to
>port, etc. I wish I had the time or skill to fix that, but the reality is I
>simply don't have either.
There are other PGP libraries available. The Veridis Filecrypt SDK,
http://www.veridis.com/products/FileCryptSDK/fcsdk.asp, is a commercial
offering which uses the OpenPGP format, and my own cryptlib,
http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/cryptlib/index.html, is available under
the Sleepycat license (GPL or commercial, your choice). You can modify it in
any way you like, although if you want to do things with it long-term, you may
want to wait until the next release, I rewrote a lot of the lower-level PGP
code recently.
Peter.
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