GnuPG

GnuPG - Complete implementation of the OpenPGP Internet standard

Also known as GNU Privacy guard, this package is a complete and free replacement for PGP. The program does not use any patented algorithms, and can be used as a filter program. Can handle all OpenPGP messages and messages generated by PGP 5.0 and newer unless they use the IDEA algorithm.

Supports ElGamal (signature and encrytion), DSA, AES, 3DES. Blowfish, Twofish, CASTS, MD5, SHA-1, RIPE-MD-160 and TIGER, and has language support for sixteen different languages.

It is believed to be fully OpenPGP (as defined in RFC2440) conform, and has integrated support for HKP keyservers. There are a lot of useful extra features like anonymous message recipients.

Obtaining

Web page	http://www.gnupg.org/
Source tarball	http://www.gnupg.org/download/mirrors.html

Version 1.2.5 (stable) released on 2004-07-27

Version 1.3.6 (devel) released on 2004-06-08

Licensed under The GNU General Public License, Version 2 or later.

This is a GNU package.

Documentation

English user manual available from: http://www.gnupg.org/gph/index.html; Spanish user manual available from: http://www.gnupg.org/gph/index.html; English HOWTO available from http://www.dewinter.com/gnupg_howto/english/; French HOWTO available from http://www.gnupg.org/howtos/fr/; German HOWTO available from http://www.gnupg.org/howtos/de/; Spanish HOWTO available from http://www.dewinter.com/gnupg_howto/spanish.

Support contacts

Announce List	<announce@gnupg.org>
Help List	<gnupg-users@gnupg.org>
Developer List	<gnupg-devel@gnupg.org>
Bug List	<bug-gnupg@gnupg.org>
Support	Paid technical support, consulting, and development available from http://www.g10code.de/

Project contacts

Maintainers	Werner Koch <wk@gnupg.org>
Developers	Matthew Skala Michael Roth Niklas Hernaeus Remi Guyomarch Werner Koch .
Contributors	J. Michael Ashley
Sponsors	German Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology

Related information

Source repository	:pserver:anoncvs@cvs.gnupg.org:/cvs/gnupg password: anoncvs http://www.gnupg.org/(en)/download/cvs_access.html
Interfaces	command line
Source languages	C
Related programs	gpa, GPGME

Entry information

License verified by	Janet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org> on 2001-01-31
Entry compiled by	Janet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org>

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