From bosman@fwi.uva.nl Mon Oct 12 15:48:27 1992 Received: from mail.fwi.uva.nl by toadflax.cs.ucdavis.edu (4.1/UCD.CS.2.0) id AA03061; Mon, 12 Oct 92 15:48:25 PDT Received: by mail.fwi.uva.nl from gene.fwi.uva.nl with SMTP (5.65c(FWI)/2.0) id AA12730; Mon, 12 Oct 1992 23:48:21 +0100 Received: by gene.fwi.uva.nl id AA24045; Mon Oct 12 23:48:20 1992 Message-Id: <199210122248.AA24045@gene.fwi.uva.nl> Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 23:48:20 +0100 Return-Path: From: bosman@fwi.uva.nl (Dr.D) X-Organisation: Faculty of Mathematics & Computer Science University of Amsterdam Plantage Muidergracht 24 NL-1018 TV Amsterdam The Netherlands X-Phone: +31 20 525 5200 X-Telex: 16460 facwn nl X-Fax: +31 20 525 5101 To: announce@cs.ucdavis.edu Status: R PGP/amiga is now available on different sites around the world. There has been at least 1 other binary of pgp, but thats not an 'official' release. It did not feature any of the assembler routines , cause they werent released with the normal pgp distribution. Pgp/amiga is released as a binary, with all documentation and a signature to check the integrity of the binary. The source will be incorporated into the next pgp distribution (update). The archive is available on the following sites: The name is: PGP20amiga.lha Scandinavia ftp.luth.se 130.240.18.2 pub/OS/amiga/util/crypt Germany ftp.uni-kl.de 131.246.9.95 pub/amiga/aminet/util/crypt Germany ftp.cs.tu-berlin.de 130.149.17.7 pub/amiga/aminet/util/crypt USA merlin.etsu.edu 192.43.199.20 aminet/util/crypt USA wuarchive.wustl.edu 128.252.135.4 systems/amiga/incoming/utils All information on RSA/patents/licensing and most other questions are answered in the docfiles of the package. The following is a small part of the msdos documentation: > PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) ver 2.0 - RSA public-key encryption freeware > for MSDOS, protects E-mail. Lets you communicate securely with people > you've never met, with no secure channels needed for prior exchange of > keys. Well featured and fast! Excellent user documentation. > > PGP has sophisticated key management, an RSA/conventional hybrid > encryption scheme, message digests for digital signatures, data > compression before encryption, and good ergonomic design. Source > code is free. > > Filenames: pgp20.zip (executable and manuals), pgp20src.zip (sources) > Keywords: PGP, Pretty Good Privacy, RSA, public key, encryption, > privacy, authentication, signatures, email Cor Bosman (amiga pgp developer)