Last night's BLU Keysigning meeting - followup

Derek Atkins warlord at MIT.EDU
Thu Dec 20 12:57:53 EST 2001


"Derek D. Martin" <ddm at pizzashack.org> writes:

> > The code for PGP 6.5.8 is available from the same sources that the
> > binaries.  And no, the NSA did not get any back doors into it.
> 
> Sorry, I was actually speaking of PGP Security from NAI, which as far
> as I know you can NOT get the source for.  And I was told this by a
> source that I normally trust for this kind of info.  You can choose to
> believe it or not.

I'm not sure what "PGP Security" is.  But the PGP encryption tool,
version 6.5.8, which you can obtain as freeware from a number of
places, including MIT, has publically available source code.  See
web.mit.edu/network/pgp.html for one download site.

-derek
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       Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
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