Date: Tue, 26 Mar 1996 12:31:04 -0800 (PST) From: Annelise Anderson <ANDRSN@HOOVER.STANFORD.EDU> To: terry@lambert.org Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: -questions etiquette Message-ID: <01I2SLHS9ZVQ00KZ7R@HOOVER.STANFORD.EDU>
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Terry Lambert writes, in reponse to a question on PGP: >I'll answer that one: >I don't know, I don't use PGP; I think it's silly without a recognized >key authority. I think key authorities will come into being if there's a market demand for them. If I understand correctly, there are only about 22,000 keys currenly listed on key servers. The demand for a reliable authority could arise from corporations wanting to provide reliable keys for people ordering from them. Meanwhile it's not clear that there are major problems with the current distributed system. >That aside, I think that the newest version was reported to compile >without changes; perhaps you should update your sources? It might >get you running code, even if it doesn't make the port work. I have the latest version, from MIT which is probably as good a place as any. I downloaded it twice (and got several difference sources, compressed in different ways), and also let the port go out and get the distribution files. The experience with all of these is the same. On 2.1 they do compile (using the port), but the when run the program produces an error when trying to decrypt a file that says "Error: Nested data has unexpected format. CTB=0x75." The number after CTB= varies depending on the file encrypted. Actually the program can be compiled without using the port on 2.1 by commenting out the lines in /usr/include/sys/types.h relating to lseek, whose type conflicts with zipup.c, or by changing the type in types.h from long to int or vice versa, I forget which it was. However the result is the same. The program does compile using the port on 2.0.5. I sent a note to the maintainer of the port, ache@FreeBSD.ORG, but I have not heard from this person, if in fact this is a person. Actually I would like to upgrade the office system from 2.0.5 to 2.1, but I'm reluctant to do so when 2.1 seems to have these peculiar problems. Annelise > Terry Lambert > terry@lambert.org --- >Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present >or previous employers.
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