OT: PGP, commercial product vs opensource stuff - viability/usability

[Jean-Pierre A. Radley]

John Esak propounded (on Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 09:52:13PM -0500):
| > It works fine for all parties involved.  The only thing I can't
| > tell you is
| > -which- PGP the remote ends are using, as I was never given that
| > information.  Should be able to be either though, in most cases.
| >
| > mark->
| 
| Thanks for the answer (I'm glad it's positive...) but, the gotcha is your
| last sentence. What if the other party is using the commercially available
| PGP, and it is not compatible?  I need to address this before we make the
| plunge. So I guess we'll compile and ask them to do a test.

You can of course compile GnuPG if you wish, but it's *shipped* with OSR
6.0.0 and is available from Skunkware for earlier OSR 5.

-- 
JP