GnuPG (The GNU Privacy Guard)





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Das Briefgeheimnis sowie das Post- und
Fernmeldegeheimnis sind unverletzlich.
Grundgesetz, Artikel 10, Abs 1.




 News Flashes 

GnuPG 1.2 has been released.
Please see this list of changes and
then go to the download instructions.

Project Ägypten launched.
It aims at Free-Software Sphinx-Clients (Mutt, KMail, ...)
on a gnupg-based framework.



 Overview  

GnuPG is a complete and free replacement for PGP.  Because it does
not use the patented IDEA algorithm, it can be used without any
restrictions.  GnuPG is a RFC2440 (OpenPGP) compliant application.

GnuPG is Free
Software. It can be freely used, modified and distributed under the
terms of the GNU General Public License.

PGP, on which OpenPGP is based, was originally developed by Philip Zimmermann; see his
page for background information on PGP.

The German Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology granted funds
for the further development of GnuPG.
See our press notice for
details.


 Status 
Version 1.0.0 has been released on September 7th, 1999.
The current stable version is 1.2.0.

Please read about the backend and 
see the documentation pages for more
information on GnuPG.




 Key Information 
The following key is used to sign GnuPG distributions:


pub  1024D/57548DCD 1998-07-07 Werner Koch (gnupg sig) <dd9jn@gnu.org>
     Key fingerprint = 6BD9 050F D8FC 941B 4341  2DCC 68B7 AB89 5754 8DCD


You can download the key, retrieve it from
the key servers or get it from the GnuPG source tree (g10/pubring.asc).


Thanks
We have to thank many people
for making GnuPG possible.




Some old links are kept here to direct you to the new location:
Supported Systems.






Return to GNU's home page.

Questions about using, compiling, and installing GnuPG can be sent to the
gnupg-users mailing list. There is a 
list archive and more info
on GnuPG mailing lists (how to subscribe, etc.). 
The contents of all messages sent to the lists are assumed to be in the     
public domain.


Please send FSF & GNU inquiries & questions to

gnu@gnu.org.
There are also other ways to
contact the FSF.


Please send comments on these web pages to

webmaster@gnupg.org,
send other questions to
gnu@gnu.org.

Copyright (C) 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111,  USA

Verbatim copying and distribution of this entire article is
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Updated: 2002-09-22 werner 




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