christophe barbé on Tue, 18 Jun 2002 17:40:53 -0400


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Re: [PLUG] Email encryption


On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 12:48:44PM -0400, gabriel rosenkoetter wrote:
> > Are GPG and PGP different solutions?
> 
> Yes. PGP is a commercial product, recently discontinued, from NAI.
> GPG is the short name for GnuPG, which is GPL'ed software released
> by the GNU project.

...

> > Where could I go to get software to integrate into Outlook? (It's my primary
> > MUA)
> 
> Well, you could download NAI's software, though it's now officially
> unsupported. I don't think anyone's really bothered to hook GnuPG
> into Outlook yet. If you've got the itch for that, maybe you should
> scratch it.

Not exactly unsupported. NAI was willing to sell the software and in the
same time keep the right to integrate it in their products. Nobody
bought it so NAI has decided to keep it in maintenance mode, which means
no more development but still security fix.

Christophe

> -- 
> gabriel rosenkoetter
> gr@eclipsed.net

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Christophe Barbé <christophe.barbe@ufies.org>
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L'experience, c'est une connerie par jour mais jamais la même.

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