Subject: Re: openpgp
To: None <netbsd-help@netbsd.org>
From: Julien Gabel <jpeg@thilelli.net>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 09/30/2003 19:41:35
>> There's more than one?!? Hrm. I figured this one, http://www.openpgp.org/,
>> which does appear to be based on rfc 2440.
>>
>> Mebbe there is something that I'm missing here, though. Which, I guess
>> is the nature of my original email.
>>
>> PS - right now, gnupg is suiting my needs. I just noticed that openpgp
>> wasn't in pkgsrc.

> Maybe I'm wrong, but IMO OpenPGP is just a standard and not a software
> package. You can use PGP or GPG and maybe other software to create OpenPGP
> conform encrypted data.

Right: OpenPGP is a standard (derived from the first implementation of PGP
software). Today, the most well-known implementation of the OpenPGP standard
is PGP and GPG (in particular under a lot of the Unix-like variant).

--
-jg.