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Re: how to find which pgp version?

From mileking <mileking.petrovic@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.security.pgp.discuss
Subject Re: how to find which pgp version?
Date 2017-02-13 21:32 +0100
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On 13.02.2017. 10:56, mileking wrote:> On 13.02.2017. 02:10, David W. 
Hodgins wrote:
 >> On Sun, 12 Feb 2017 16:08:23 -0500, Milenko Jekic
 >> <milenko.jekic@gmail.com> wrote:
 >>
 >>> Hello all,
 >>> I recently installed LinuxMint 17 and PGP, but I can't find which
 >>> version of PGP i have. Naturally, i tried "PGP -v" but receive an 
error.
 >>> Also, it refuses all commands starting with "--", i.e. "--version". 
Also
 >>> is missing "man pgp". Anyway, I think that David's site
 >>> <http://www.rossde.com/PGP/pgp_encrypt.html> is extremely useful, and
 >>> I'll probably study it in days to come.
 >>
 >> On a linux system, why not use gpg instead? I don't know about Mint,
 >> but Mageia has gnupg and gnupg2 available in it's repositories.
 >>
 >> Regards, Dave Hodgins
 >>
 >
 > tnx, i'll probably try that gpg thing
 > mileking

This GPG thing really works ! Here is output from my "gpg --version":

gpg (GnuPG) 1.4.16
Copyright (C) 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later 
<http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

Home: ~/.gnupg
Supported algorithms:
Pubkey: RSA, RSA-E, RSA-S, ELG-E, DSA
Cipher: IDEA, 3DES, CAST5, BLOWFISH, AES, AES192, AES256, TWOFISH,
         CAMELLIA128, CAMELLIA192, CAMELLIA256
Hash: MD5, SHA1, RIPEMD160, SHA256, SHA384, SHA512, SHA224
Compression: Uncompressed, ZIP, ZLIB, BZIP2

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how to find which pgp version? Milenko Jekic <milenko.jekic@gmail.com> - 2017-02-12 22:08 +0100
  Re: how to find which pgp version? Arthur T. <arthur@munged.invalid> - 2017-02-12 18:24 -0500
  Re: how to find which pgp version? "David W. Hodgins" <dwhodgins@nomail.afraid.org> - 2017-02-12 20:10 -0500
    Re: how to find which pgp version? mileking <mileking.petrovic@gmail.com> - 2017-02-13 10:56 +0100
      Re: how to find which pgp version? mileking <mileking.petrovic@gmail.com> - 2017-02-13 21:32 +0100

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