info PGP from France

The PGP 6.0 Manual is available in french
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The User's Guide of the cryptographic application PGP 6.0 (Windows version)
has been translated in french by some users from the newgroup
fr.misc.cryptologie.

The document is in Acrobat PDF format and can be downloaded freely at these
URL :


http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Bay/9648/intimite.htm

and soon mirrored on:


http://www.fortunecity.com/skyscraper/oracle/598/intimite.htm

PGP 6.0 freeware has been published in USA in the early september by
Network Associates, Inc. In spite of the US regulations prohibiting the
export of strong cryptography softwares, unknowns have exported PGP 6.0 in
Europe by email. The french is at this time the single language in which
the PGP 6.0 manual has been translated.

In the eyes of the french laws, the use of PGP 6.0 is prohibited on the
extent of the french territory. But his holding in France and his
importation from a country member of the European Union are perfectly legal.

(IMPORTANT : the text of this Manual stays the property of Network
Associates Inc. (NAI). NAI has not given his agreement for this
translation, which is provided by his authors only temporaly, waiting for
an official french version by NAI)

> The PGP 6.0 Manual is available in french

Y'know, I have yet to see a rational (non-marketing-speak) explanation
of the advantages of switching to PGP 6.0...

PGP 5.x appears to have no advantages over 2.6x, but when Windoze
users began to "upgrade" to it, we had to rewrite our mailing list
code, as -- of course -- it's mostly incompatible with 2.6x.

Its other primary features -- public keys the size of Mack trucks,
dog-slow decryption rates, and more complicated key management --
hardly count as advantages.

So what's 6.0 got?  Total incompatibility with previous versions?
10 MB executables?  An additional bloatware serving "on the side"?

Pah!  It looks as if PGP today has more in common with Micro$oft Turd
than the nice little "privacy for the masses" programme Phil wrote.

On Sun, 1 Nov 1998, Anonymous wrote:

> 
>   > The PGP 6.0 Manual is available in french
> 
> Y'know, I have yet to see a rational (non-marketing-speak) explanation
> of the advantages of switching to PGP 6.0...

You should read Cypherpunks more regularly. This is what I posted in the
past:

Quick PGP 6 eval
===============

Long desired features:
o Designated revokers (If you are incapacitated/incarcerated).
o Secret shared keys (A must for corporate root keys).

Gimmick:
o You can attach a photo to your key.  

Still not there:
o Ability to revoke individual user ID's on a key.

-- Lucky Green <shamrock@cypherpunks.to> PGP v5 encrypted email preferred.