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by justinsaccount 1399 days ago
I used this in 1999 or so when I had just started out using linux. It was a huge pain to get running. It was for US citizens only or something, and I had to have my parents write to the government requesting the decryption key for the installer. It may have required something crazy like a fax.

After I got it running I had some trouble getting it to do things and wrote to the email address asking for example files. Mike Muuss himself wrote back with a bunch of demo files attached.

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> Mike Muuss himself wrote back with a bunch of demo files attached.

That's kind of awesome. I built it from source a few years after that and didn't have to deal with any headaches at all.

This is what kept me away from it. You won't have many users when you encrypt your files and the user has to request decription keys from .mil mail addresses.