Re: PGP for the 400

["Patrick Townsend" <patownsend@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Phil,

I don't think NAI has relaxed the licensing requirements, but they are
willing to license to more platforms than they did in the past.

I'm not sure about the performance of PGP on the AS/400. My experience with
the non-commercial port we did shows that it was a little slower than the PC
version because of the atrocious performance of the IFS file system. But 64
bit processing power does a lot for you!

Patrick
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Phil Hall" <hallp@ssax.com>
To: <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Sent: Friday, January 26, 2001 12:29 PM
Subject: Re: PGP for the 400


> > There was a discussion of doing a port, but nobody bellyed up to
> > the bar to take the lead.
> >
> > As usual, I'm happy to offer a mailing list for project coordination
> > when someone starts it up.
>
> If I remember correctly, at the time it was discussed, NAS (or who ever it
> is that now 'owns' the PGP stuff) required it to licensed and so that
would
> cost money for the people porting it. At that time, I also remember Tim
> McCarthy talking about a port of it that he was doing.
>
> Since then, I think that NAS have relaxed the licensing rules somewhat,
and
> looking at the code for PGP it's going to take a big, big box to get
> anywhere near the PC speeds...
>
> --phil
>
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