NODE 74ec9814RE: PGP 2.6.1 release from MIT
"Claborne, Chris" <claborne@microcosm.sandiegoca.NCR.COM>Fri, 2 Sep 94 16:59:01 PDT
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> From: Philip Zimmermann <prz@acm.org>
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> To: All PGP users
> Date: 2 Sep 94
> Re: PGP 2.6.1 release
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> This new version has a lot of bug fixes over version 2.6. I hope this is
> the final release of this family of PGP source code. We've been working
> on an entirely new version of PGP, rewritten from scratch, which is much
> cleaner and faster, and better suited for the future enhancements we have
> planned. All PGP development efforts will be redirected toward this
> new code base, after this 2.6.1 release.
Anyone have an idea of what these "enhancements" will be? New data formats?
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NODE 3b791a36Re: PGP 2.6.1 release from MIT
Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>Fri, 2 Sep 94 20:03:45 PDT
Well, I haven't seen the code, but some ideas I'd have for enhancements
are:
- signatures at the end of the packets for one-time data passes
- signature revocations
- userID revocations
- real database key management
- extensions for alternative encryption and message digest algorithms
- modularization of the code
- a PGP library and API
- much of the wish list Vesselin Bontchev has created
-derek
NODE e4705361PGP 2.6.1 release from MIT
pstemari@bismark.cbis.com (Paul J. Ste. Marie)Tue, 6 Sep 94 05:25:22 PDT
> > This new version has a lot of bug fixes over version 2.6. I hope this is
> > the final release of this family of PGP source code. We've been working
> > on an entirely new version of PGP, rewritten from scratch, which is much
> > cleaner and faster, and better suited for the future enhancements we have
> > planned. All PGP development efforts will be redirected toward this
> > new code base, after this 2.6.1 release.
>
> Anyone have an idea of what these "enhancements" will be? New data formats?
Or when they will be available? I tried FTPing them over the weekend
and only found the 2.6.0 version.
--Paul
NODE 0a0b69aaRe: PGP 2.6.1 release from MIT
Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>Tue, 6 Sep 94 10:19:21 PDT
A message will be sent out when 2.6.1 is available. I expect it to
be available later today or tomorrow, but wait for the mail that says
that it is available and where to get it!
-derek