PGP 6.5.8
Electronic Source
Release Notes
8/27/00


All source code contained herein is Copyright 2000 Networks Associates Technology, Inc. All rights reserved. Please see the file License.txt for for license information.

PAST

Previous source releases of PGP utilized a process which printed every single source file in book form so that it could be published. This process was extremely manual and complex -- usually taking months to complete the process of going from source code to printed books to source code again.

Due to changes in US Government export regulations, we are now able to publish our source code electronically. This is the first electronic source release of PGP.

PRESENT

This source release for PGP 6.5.8 contains all code needed to build the Windows, Macintosh, and Unix versions of PGP -- although the archive you downloaded may contain only one of those platforms.

Some of the build instructions you will find in the same directory as this file may contain references to procedures which are no longer necessary. References to steps such as unzipping binaries are outdated parts of the 6.5.1 source code book publishing process. You may ignore these steps.

As well, some files which we were not able to include in binary form in the source code books are now included in binary form for convenience alongside their source code -- these files generally involved great effort to build, so using this release should be significantly simpler than previous source releases.

FUTURE

At the time of this source release, the PGP team is working actively on PGP 7.0 which is expected to be released very soon. We hope to provide updated build instructions and more improvements to the electronic source release process for 7.0.

