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Mailcrypt 3.5.8 is Available for Download
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Mailcrypt is an Emacs Lisp package which provides a simple interface
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to message encryption with PGP (you do use Emacs to handle your mail
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and news, right?). The current version of Mailcrypt handles PGP 2.6.x,
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PGP 5.x, and GnuPG 1.x .
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2.1. New in this Release
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This is mainly a bugfix release. Anonymous remailer support was updated to
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match modern remailers, and the GPG passphrase code was changed to cache
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by keyid instead of name, which will help folks who use multiple keys with
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the same name but different passphrases.
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2.2. Stable Features for PGP 5.0 and GnuPG
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Support for GnuPG. Key fetching/snarfing functionality for PGP 5.0.
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Messages from PGP 5.0 operations now resemble more closely the
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messages generated for version 2.6. Encryption works correctly,
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even when the secret keyring is not available (a requested feature
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for paranoid types ;-). Mixmaster and Cypherpunk remailers can be
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used in PGP 5.0 mode, if the user has an RSA key. Further updated
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documentation for support under various mail packages.
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2.3. Features for PGP 2.6.x (stable)
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Encryption, decryption, signing, adding keys, extracting keys,
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passphrase caching with timeout, multiple secret key (identity)
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support, a simple but flexible interface to Cypherpunk remailers
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(including chaining, response blocks, pseudonyms, and Mixmaster
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support), and an automatic keyserver interface via HTTP.
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o Fix signing of foreign-language emails under GNUS/Mule. Currently,
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foreign characters are preceded by a '\207' byte, which is
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present at signing, but stripped when messages are sent.
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o Get Mailcrypt to work with PGP 5.0 on NT.
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o Test Mailcrypt against PGP 6.5.
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o Refine Mailcrypt schemes so that alternate backends, like Crypt++,
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o Expand self-test framework.
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3. Downloading Mailcrypt
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The Official Mailcrypt version 3.5.8 can be downloaded at:
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<http://mailcrypt.sourceforge.net>
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Since receiving the blessing of the original authors, this is now
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the official Mailcrypt site.
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Of course, Mailcrypt 3.4 can still be downloaded at the (just as
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official) Mailcrypt sites:
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<http://cag-www.lcs.mit.edu/mailcrypt/>
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<ftp://cag.lcs.mit.edu/pub/patl/>
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- Brian Warner <warner-mailcrypt@lothar.com>
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- Len Budney <lbudney@pobox.com>
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