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Source: gnupg
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Section: utils
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Priority: optional
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Maintainer: James Troup <james@nocrew.org>
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Standards-Version: 2.5.0.0
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Package: gnupg
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Architecture: any
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Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, makedev (>= 2.3.1-13)
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Description: GNU privacy guard - a free PGP replacement.
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GnuPG is the GNU encryption and signing tool. As you can see from the
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version number, the program may have some bugs and some features may not
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work at all.
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Due to the fact that GnuPG does not use use any patented algorithm,
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it cannot be compatible to old PGP versions, because those use
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IDEA (which is worldwide patented) and RSA (which is patented in
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the United States until Sep 20, 2000).
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GnuPG is in almost all aspects compatible with other OpenPGP
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implementations. The default algorithms are DSA and ELGamal.
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Symmetric algorithms are: Blowfish and CAST5, Digest algorithms are
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MD5, RIPEMD160, SHA1 and TIGER/192.
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