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Thus said eoliver@ralph.cs.haverford.edu (Erik Oliver):
>RIPEM  just ain't as good as PGP, I got a special username password to
>download ripem from a site in missouri, (I think it is the creator's
>site), and compiled it without much trouble.

Michigan, not Missouri (not that it really matters.)

>I found that its interface made PGPs look terrific, IMHO.

Can you be more specific?  What tasks did you find easier to perform
using PGP?  How exactly did you attempt to perform them with each?
RIPEM takes a bit of customization to make work smoothly, and works
much better with some mailers than others (which is the fault of the
mailer.)

>Also, I realized that using it would be a pain in the ass, because
>nobody outside the USA and CA would be able to (1) validate my messages
>and (2) nobody would be able to decrypt them either.

This is true, at least until compliant software ends up in use outside
North America.  Conversely, with PGP, many potential correspondents in
the U.S. and Canada will not be able to decrypt or verify your messages
because they believe PGP to be illegal and will not use it.  You makes
your choices.

>Additionally, there are going to be _many_ competing RIPEM
>implementations that are not all necessarily going to be compatible.
>For example, I am waiting to beta test a version of RIPEM from tis.com.
>Perhaps that will be better.

I assume that what you actually mean is "there will be many PEM
implementations that are not all necessarily going to be compatible."
There is a version of PEM from TIS that is being made available.  It
will not be RIPEM.  It should (eventually) be compatible with RIPEM in
some way, though the standards are still evolving.  But at least there
are standards, and RIPEM has a chance in hell of communicating with
anything other than another copy of RIPEM, which is more than PGP can
say.
-- 
Marc VanHeyningen    mvanheyn@whale.cs.indiana.edu    MIME & RIPEM accepted

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