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Debian updates, minor fixes.

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Werner Koch 2000-10-17 12:41:51 +00:00
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Section: utils
Priority: optional
Maintainer: James Troup <james@nocrew.org>
Standards-Version: 2.5.0.0
Standards-Version: 3.1.1.1
Build-Depends: gettext, libgdbmg1-dev, libz-dev
Package: gnupg
Architecture: any
Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, makedev (>= 2.3.1-13)
Suggests: gnupg-doc
Conflicts: gpg-rsa, gpg-rsaref
Replaces: gpg-rsa, gpg-rsaref
Provides: gpg-rsa, gpg-rsaref
Description: GNU privacy guard - a free PGP replacement.
GnuPG is the GNU encryption and signing tool. As you can see from the
version number, the program may have some bugs and some features may not
work at all.
GnuPG is GNU's tool for secure communication and data storage.
It can be used to encrypt data and to create digital signatures.
It includes an advanced key management facility and is compliant
with the proposed OpenPGP Internet standard as described in RFC2440.
.
Due to the fact that GnuPG does not use use any patented algorithm,
it cannot be compatible to old PGP versions, because those use
IDEA (which is worldwide patented) and RSA (which is patented in
the United States until Sep 20, 2000).
.
GnuPG is in almost all aspects compatible with other OpenPGP
implementations. The default algorithms are DSA and ELGamal.
Symmetric algorithms are: Blowfish and CAST5, Digest algorithms are
MD5, RIPEMD160, SHA1 and TIGER/192.
GnuPG does not use use any patented algorithms so it cannot be
compatible with PGP2 because it uses IDEA (which is patented
worldwide) and RSA. RSA's patent expired on the 20th September 2000,
and it is now included in GnuPG.