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diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control new file mode 100644 index 000000000..1c5f906e9 --- /dev/null +++ b/debian/control @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ +Source: gnupg +Section: utils +Priority: optional +Maintainer: James Troup <[email protected]> +Standards-Version: 2.5.0.0 + +Package: gnupg +Architecture: any +Depends: ${shlibs:Depends} +Description: GNU privacy guard - a free PGP replacement. + GNUPG is the GNU encryption and signing tool. As you can see from the + version number, the program may have some bugs and some features may not + work at all. + . + Due to the fact that GNUPG does not use use any patented algorithm, + it cannot be compatible to old PGP versions, because those use + IDEA (which is worldwide patented) and RSA (which is patented in + the United States until Sep 20, 2000). + . + GNUPG is in almost all aspects compatible with other OpenPGP + implementations. The default algorithms are DSA and ELGamal. + Symmetric algorithms are: Blowfish and CAST5, Digest algorithms are + MD5, RIPEMD160, SHA1 and TIGER/192. |