From owner-freebsd-current Sun Dec 8 16:23:36 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id QAA02498 for current-outgoing; Sun, 8 Dec 1996 16:23:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id QAA02479 for ; Sun, 8 Dec 1996 16:23:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id BAA20463 for ; Mon, 9 Dec 1996 01:23:24 +0100 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id BAA19152 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Mon, 9 Dec 1996 01:23:24 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.2/8.6.9) id XAA17852 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Sun, 8 Dec 1996 23:19:16 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199612082219.XAA17852@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: last in -current To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Date: Sun, 8 Dec 1996 23:19:15 +0100 (MET) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <5888.850074771@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Dec 8, 96 11:52:51 am" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > Hmmpf. Kill your government first. As long as we cannot provide PGP > > as a binary drop-in, this is a moot point. > > Erm, no, it's really not. [...] > Furthermore, even if the tools *ignore* the pgp signature, as > they would in the case where no pgp program was found (and it would > just print a short warning msg that they should install the pgp > program if they want more assurance that what they're doing is > legitimate), we still need to provide it for those people who really > do care. Ok, this sounds reasonable. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)