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@ -26,17 +26,17 @@ history: To help political activists Phil Zimmermann published a
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software called Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) in 1991. PGP was designed
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as an easy to use encryption tool with no backdoors and disclosed
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source code. PGP was indeed intended to be cryptographically strong
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and not just pretty good; however it had a couple of inital bugs, most
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and not just pretty good; however it had a couple of initial bugs, most
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of all a home designed cipher algorithm. With the availability of the
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source code a community of hackers (Branko Lankester, Colin Plumb,
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Derek Atkins, Hal Finney, Peter Gutmann and others) helped him to fix
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these flaws and a get a solid version 2 out.
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Soon after that the trouble started. As in many counties the use or
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Soon after that the trouble started. As in many countries the use or
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export of cryptographic devices and software was also strongly
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restricted in the USA. Only weak cryptography was generally allowed.
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PGP was much stronger and due to the Usenet and the availability of
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FTP servers and BBSs, PGP accidently leaked out of the country and
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FTP servers and BBSs, PGP accidentally leaked out of the country and
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soon Phil was sued for unlicensed munitions export. Those export
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control laws were not quite up to the age of software with the funny
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effect that exporting the software in printed form seemed not to be
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@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ the PGP product was later continued by the new PGP Corporation).
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Also often claimed to be Free Software, PGP has never fulfilled the
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requirements for it: PGP-5 is straight proprietary software; the
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availability of the source code alonedoes not make it free. PGP-2 has
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availability of the source code alone does not make it free. PGP-2 has
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certain restrictions on commercial use [2] and thus puts restrictions
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on the software which makes it also non-free. Another problem with
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PGP-2 is that it requires the use of the patented RSA and IDEA
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@ -80,8 +80,8 @@ such software in their country or even by US citizens working abroad.
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Thus he told the European hackers that they are in the unique position
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to help the GNU with crypto software.
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Being tired of writing SMGL conversion software and without a current
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fun project, I soon found my self hacking on PGP-2 parsing code based
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Being tired of writing SGML conversion software and without a current
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fun project, I soon found myself hacking on PGP-2 parsing code based
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on the description in RFC-1991 and the pgformat.txt file. As this
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turned out to be easy I continued and finally came up with code to
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decrypt and create PGP-2 data. After I told the GNU towers that I
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@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ and wrote an announcement [5].
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Right the next day Peter Gutmann offered to allow the use of his
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random number code for systems without a /dev/random. This eventually
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helped a lot to make GnuPG portable to many platforms. The next two
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months were filled with code updates and a lengthly discussion on the
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months were filled with code updates and a lengthily discussion on the
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name; we finally settled for Anand Kumria's suggestion of GnuPG and
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made the first release under this name (gnupg-0.2.8) on Feb 24 [6].
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Just a few days later an experimental version with support for Windows
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@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ copyright concerns with the reference code). Michael Roth contributed
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a Triple-DES implementation later the year and thus completed the
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required set of OpenPGP algorithms. Over the next year the usual
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problems were solved, features discussed, complaints noticed and
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support for gpg in various other software was introduced by their
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support for GPG in various other software was introduced by their
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respective authors.
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Finally, on September 7, 1999 the current code was released as version
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@ -206,7 +206,7 @@ In a reply to this mail Alan Olsen remarked on the ML:
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determined that the only difference was that RSAREF2 had fixed a
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number of buffer overflows and other security flaws. There were no
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added features.)
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If I remember correctly, 2.5 had RSAREF2 and 2.6 had RSAREF1. One
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of the main reasons for the creation of the "International version"
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was the use of RSAREF. (Besides the security issues, it was pretty
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