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- PGPAmiga 2.6.3i Bonn, 19th January 1996
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-
- Welcome to the binary distribution of PGPAmiga 2.6.3i. This is the
- international version of PGP, which is legal to use outside the United
- States -- _only_ outside the United States. If you're living inside the
- USA, please get PGP 2.6.3 instead, which does absolutely the same as this
- version, except for some internals. I am sorry about this mess, but we have
- to do it that way because the RSA algorithm is patented in the USA.
-
- You will have already noticed that the original archive you got, contains
- only three files: PGPAmiga-263i.asc, PGPAmiga-263i.lzh and this ReadMe. The
- file with the "asc" extension is a digital signature of the lzh-archive. If
- you have PGP already installed and trust your version, you might use the
- command
-
- $ pgp PGPAmiga-263i.asc PGPAmiga-263i.lzh
-
- to check the signature and thus test, whether this archive has been
- modified or tampered with. If this is the first version of PGP you get, you
- will simply have to trust it, or not, I'm afraid.
-
- Now unpack the archive using lha as usual. Lha will extract a number of
- files and directories, which I'd like to describe in short because the
- whole structure might be a bit confusing:
-
- bin/ This directory contains the binaries and related files you
- need for your installation. There're are numerous help
- files, which will provide you on-line help in the language
- you favor. Please read the README.amiga file, which
- described the installation process in detail.
-
- doc/ The second most important directory after the binaries:
- Here you will find the PGP documentation. I'd like to point
- out, that you must, must, _must_ MUST, _MUST_ read the
- manual before doing anything with PGP. PGP's encryption is
- pretty worthless if you do not understand what it is doing
- and what you should do to protect your data!
-
- contrib/ Here you'll find additional utilities, which would need
- some work and a compiler to function. :-)
-
- readme.1st This file has been written by Stale Schumacher and
- addresses several issues of PGP in general, such as the
- legal situation, new features and similar stuff. It is
- highly recommended that you read this file, too!
-
- keys.asc This file contains the PGP public keys of almost anybody
- involved in PGP development. You might want to add them to
- your keysring using
-
- $ pgp -ka keys.asc
-
- Many of the keys authenticiated (signed) by each other. So
- if you know just one of these developers, you have a decent
- chance of having all keys authenticiated.
-
- If you have any questions regarding PGPAmiga or PGP in general, you are
- welcome to e-mail me at simons@peti.rhein.de or Robert Knop
- rknop@mop.caltech.edu. Our keys are also included in the keys.asc file, so
- you might encrypt your mail -- just for testing purposes. :-)
-
- There also exists a mailing list dedicated to the discussion of PGPAmiga
- related topics. You can subscribe by sending an e-mail to
- pgpamiga-request@peti.rhein.de and putting the command ADD in the mail
- body. You should be notified by the listserv daemon within 24 hours.
-
- Okay, all that's left is wishing you much success at mastering PGP. Don't
- forget: Many other have done it already. :-) PGP is a hell of a complicated
- tool, but there's not much we can do about it. Who said that security would
- be easy?
-
- Sincerely, Peter Simons
-
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