From: Alphaman [alphaman64@nixspam-home.com]
Sent: Friday, May 25, 2001 1:04 AM
To: Info-VAX@Mvb.Saic.Com
Subject: Re: PGP revisited

> >Where do you find Gnupg for VMS?
>
>   http://seqaxp.bio.caltech.edu/pub/SOFTWARE/GNUPG1_0_4_VMS.ZIP
>
> use at your own risk, I don't support it, etc. etc.

While Dave may suggest it's unsupported/risky, I'll say I've used it and
find it functional and compatible, even with PGP.  I've used it for creating
and verifying signatures and encrypting and decrypting files.  Works great;
good job, Dave!

One item of note: you will find some command line options that can take file
specs; some of these will fail due to the vaguaries of byte vs. record
counting (U*X vs. RMS).  In these circumstances, I found that using the DCL
PIPE command to redirect input or output to/from GPG will circumvent the RMS
rounding errors and keep GPG happy.  (e.g., when you encrypt a file, don't
use -o filespec, instead pipe the output to the destination file.  GPG
counts the bytes written, then checks the file size to ensure the 2 match;
RMS reports back the number of blocks * 512, which <> fsize.  Oops.)

Happy cryptology,
Aaron
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