Re: FYI, my findings w/ PGP 6.5.1 and yarn
From: rex (rex@ptw.com)
Date: Fri, 1 Oct 1999 10:11:42 -0700
On Fri, Oct 01, 1999 at 10:25:30AM -0400, Steven M. Sawczyn wrote:
>
> The
> only potential problem worth mentioning is that the freeware version of
> the new PGP does *not* support the generation of RSA keys. RSA keys
> can, however, be added to public/secret keyrings. If you have a
> previously-generated RSA keypair, it can be used with the new version,
> the limitation exists purely where generating a new keypair is concerned.
> My recommendation would be, therefore, to keep an older copy of PGP on
> the machine somewhere, so that a RSA keypair can be generated if
> required. Of course, the other too alternatives would be to:
> #1 Go to the newer DH/DSS standard about which there exists some
> controversy;
> #2 Don't be as cheap as I am and purchase the commercial PGP
> version, to my knowledge, generation of RSA keypairs is supported in the
> commercial version.
Thanks for the report, Steve.
The international version (6.5.1i) is due to be released any day.
http://www.pgpi.org
It may include support for RSA key generation.
Another incentive to buy the commercial version is that PGPDisk is
not included in the free 6.5.1 distribution.
-rex