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* README: Some typo fixes from Florian Weimer, and bump version number.

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2002-10-16 David Shaw <dshaw@jabberwocky.com>
* README: Some typo fixes from Florian Weimer, and bump version
number.
2002-10-15 David Shaw <dshaw@jabberwocky.com>
* NEWS: Some 1.3 notes.

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GnuPG - The GNU Privacy Guard
-------------------------------
Version 1.2
Version 1.3
Copyright 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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compatible with PGP2 versions. PGP 2.x uses IDEA (which is patented
worldwide).
The default algorithms are DSA and ElGamal. ElGamal for signing
is still available, but because of the larger size of such
signatures it is deprecated (Please note that the GnuPG
implementation of ElGamal signatures is *not* insecure). Symmetric
algorithms are: AES, 3DES, Blowfish, CAST5 and Twofish
The default algorithms are DSA and ElGamal, but RSA is also
supported. ElGamal for signing is available, but because of the
larger size of such signatures it is deprecated (Please note that
the GnuPG implementation of ElGamal signatures is *not* insecure).
Symmetric algorithms are: AES, 3DES, Blowfish, CAST5 and Twofish.
Digest algorithms available are MD5, RIPEMD160 and SHA1.
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Please read the file INSTALL and the sections in this file
related to the installation. Here is a quick summary:
1) Check that you have unmodified sources. The below on how
to do this. Don't skip it - this is an important step!
1) Check that you have unmodified sources. See below on how to do
this. Don't skip it - this is an important step!
2) Unpack the TAR. With GNU tar you can do it this way:
"tar xzvf gnupg-x.y.z.tar.gz"
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$ gpg --fingerprint 0x57548DCD
with the elsewhere published fingerprint
with the fingerprint published elsewhere.
Please note, that you have to use an old version of GnuPG to
do all this stuff. *Never* use the version which you are going
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make. Try gmake or grab the sources from a GNU archive and
install them.
On some OSF you may get unresolved externals. This is a libtool
problem and the workaround is to manually remove all the "-lc -lz"
but the last one from the linker line and execute them manually.
On some OSF systems you may get unresolved externals. This is a
libtool problem and the workaround is to manually remove all the
"-lc -lz" but the last one from the linker line and execute them
manually.
On some architectures you see warnings like:
longlong.h:175: warning: function declaration isn't a prototype