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- This is a version of PGP 2.6.2i suitable for use on Acorn's RISC OS machines
- such as the Archimedes, A3000 and Risc PC.
-
- This distribution does include source code, but does NOT include
- things necessary only for compiling PGP on other platforms. If you
- want that, you should get the original distribution, for which the
- nearest FTP site to you is probably ftp.ox.ac.uk .
- (All the source files that are here should still be usable on other
- systems, though; it's just that some of the extra files needed for
- them aren't here any more.)
-
- I should make it clear that I didn't write this; I just ported it.
- The only substantial bits of my code are the ARM-specific arithmetic,
- MD5 and low-level IO calls.
-
- I haven't made any attempt to port stuff in the "contrib" directory,
- because I never use it. It looks like it should be pretty easy -- just
- a matter of the usual filename fiddling.
-
-
- For general information about PGP, read "readme/1st" first, and then
- look in the "doc" directory. All this stuff is from the standard
- PGP 2.6.2i distribution.
-
- For more information about the RISC OS version than is in this file,
- see !Hints. In particular there's information about installing PGP
- there.
-
-
- What's different in the RISC OS version?
- - Lots of filename-handling changes. I think I've caught
- everything.
- - ARM code for various things that need it or benefit from it.
- - different filenames for various things, of course.
-
- For more information about this, see the file !Changes, which
- details every change I've made to the original distribution
- with the exception of "automatic" filename changes (things like
- foo.c -> c.foo).
-
-
- Potential gotchas:
- - You must use RISC OS filenames; PGP will not translate, say,
- /foo/bar.c into $.foo.c.bar for you.
- - Filename extensions are *not* converted into directories;
- if you want "foo.bar/asc" to mean "foo.asc.bar" or something
- then you'll have to edit the source code yourself.
- - Filename extensions must be given in lowercase. Sorry. (It
- doesn't matter what case the filename on disc has; just what
- you feed to PGP yourself.)
- - Several filenames have changed non-trivially; e.g., pubring.pgp
- has become pubrng.pgp (note missing "i").
-
-
- Checking you've got a valid copy:
- - The file "pgp/asc" contains a detached signature for the "pgp" binary,
- signed by me.
- - The file "key/asc" contains my PGP key.
- - You can sort-of verify that it's my key by checking against a copy
- from a keyserver.
- - Of course, some malicious person *could* be impersonating me cleverly.
- If you're worried about that, you probably have ideas about how to
- become less worried.
-
-
- -- Gareth McCaughan
- gjm11@pmms.cam.ac.uk
-
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