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A new release of CryptorBundle, the missing bundle for encryption of NeXT Mail, has been submitted to ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de: //pub/comp/platforms/next/Mail/apps/CryptorBundle.1.3.NIHS.b.tar.gz The major new feature is the long awaited compatibility with the HP version and SPARC version of NeXTSTEP. CryptorBundle does not contain PGP anymore. It must be obtained separately !! Therefore CryptorBundle may now be placed on US ftp-servers ! CryptorBundle-1.3 ----------------- This is the bundle which reenables NeXTMail-Encryption. It uses PGP-2.6, one of the best encryption software which is available for free. CryptorBundle-1.3 comes as a fat bundle, compiled for intel, m68k, hppa and sparc hardware. It works ONLY on NeXTSTEP 3.2 and NS-3.3, later versions may work or not. CryptorBundle has been written by Thomas Funke, thomas@gamelan.shnet.org. Why CryptorBundle-1.3 ? ----------------------- NeXT has prepared Mail.app with public key encryption software since NS3.0. But because of US law, they were not allowed to export encryption software. The infamous three-letter-company would mind .... Thus the standard Mail.app comes without encryption SW. Now you can reenable this again, have NeXT's original GUI for public-key mail encryption: Browse through your public keys, add keys to your key list just by drag and drop, send encrypted messages and decipher encrypted messages (if you have the public key, of course ... ). All this is done inside Mail.app: No services add-on necessary, just the usual NeXT-way as NeXT has prepared it already. How safe is it ? ---------------- Well, probably much safer than NeXT has originally planned. The algorithm used to encrypt is 'RSA', probably not hackable. It uses the well known (free) PGP program, thus if you already have PGP keys, you can still use them with the new bundle.
These are the contents of the former NiCE NeXT User Group NeXTSTEP/OpenStep software archive, currently hosted by Netfuture.ch.