Hot Potato - tpecorella_dotmac

GPG isn't for real the GNU version of PGP, since it's a complete different set of applications and the 2 doesn't share any codebase. It's like warning users about Firefox because you had issues with Safari.

PGP is an internet standard (see RFCs, if you don't know what's an RFC go check). Why the standard and the "PGP" application have the same name is beyond the scope of this. However the point is: GPG and PGP suites both follows the PGP standard protocol but THEY ARE DIFFERENT THINGS.

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Sunday, December 23 2007 @ 02:49 PM PST

Hot Potato - Ulrich Kapp

Your first statement is correct, but the second is absolutely false.

PGP isn't any standard, it is a product of the PGP Corporation.
The PGP Corporation was founded by the origin inventor of PGP, Phil Zimmermann, as he and some people of his former staff bought back the PGP source code from McAfee. (Phil Zimmermann sold the PGP source code 1997 to the McAfee, Inc.)
The internet standard you mean is OpenPGP which was introduced 1998 as a free alternative to the now proprietary (McAfee) PGP.
The first implementation of OpenPGP was GPG (Gnu Privacy Guard), a free (GPL) alternative to the still proprietary GPG products.

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Friday, December 28 2007 @ 08:15 AM PST

Sorry - Ulrich Kapp

Sorry for posting twice. :-(

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Friday, December 28 2007 @ 08:18 AM PST