Re: [Exim] OpenPGP signatures on Exim releases

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Author: Andreas Metzler
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] OpenPGP signatures on Exim releases
On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 09:25:42AM +0100, Philip Hazel wrote:
> On 9 Oct 2002, Jeffrey C. Ollie wrote:
>> I don't think that PGP signing software distributions is "over the top",
>> not anymore anyway. Just witness the recent OpenSSH debacle. Really,
>> once Philip gets set up and comfortable using gpg (or whatever) it will
>> only take a few minutes each time he creates a release, plus a little
>> time here and there maintaining his keys.


> I'm confused. What is the difference between PGP and GPG? This thread is
> using both of them...

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Different implementations of the same function, ie. the OpenPGP
standard.

gnupg (gpg) is open-source, current versions of pgp (7) is
not. pgp(7) is nicely integrated with grapical frontends on
Windows-platforms, on Unix-* afaik there is no advantage.
           cu andreas