Re: yarn and pgp i5.0

From: Jeff Foy (bg809@scn.org)
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 17:40:51 -0700

>In article <KGmK2oQ0mEFX092yn@scn.org>, bg809@scn.org (Jeff Foy) wrote:
>>that it is better to stay with the 2.x versions of PGP rather than
>
>I'm really starting to agree with those people as the 5.0I version has
>many bugs. Unfortunately, many of my friends are using DH/DSS keys and,
>as far as I know, the 5.0I version is the only command-line-based
>version which supports these keys.

There is a new version 6.0 (non-"i") just FYI. Don't think it's
command-line though.

>surprised that command line support seems to have been dropped
>completely as there are many people and programs which still rely on
>this interface.

One could, presumably, get the Linux/UNIX version and recompile
it but that's a big hassle.

>> My guess would be %f is the encrypted/signed file and %o is the
>>plaintext message.
>
>That's what I thought; pgp5.0I seems to be screwing this up too as it
>can't find the plain text file.

It probably does the command line arguments differently.

>Again, I appreciate your help with this. I'm sure that I'll eventually
>get this working. On second thought, maybe I shouldn't be so optimistic.

Optimism is a good thing. I'm still optimistic, for example,
that we'll see a Linux version of Yarn one day. :)

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