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myPGP is since now discontinued.

I was yesterday accepted for developing a privacy guard under a BSD license for NetBSD in the Google's Summer of Code. The name of the new project is bpg (BSD Privacy Guard) and it will replace myPGP. While myPGP was an experimental privacy guard, bpg aims to be an stable production application.

I encourage you to follow the developing of bgp in its site http://netbsd-soc.sourceforge.net/projects/bpg. I hope it will be stable by the end of the Summer of Code, that is, September 1st.... read more

An anonymous user answered to my weblog in Barrapunto (http://barrapunto.com), and told me how to tell the browser my enconding.

I added this line to the meta content of the web pages: meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8". With this everything is working now. Thanks.

After writing by hand all the web page in an strictly standard format using UTF-8 encoding, I got surprised when I entered the site from an Internet Explorer browser. I don't know why, but this stupid program doesn't take the codification specified in XML format, what forced me to translate all the files into ISO-8859-1.

Does anybody know how can I tell the browser to use my encoding? I would really appreciate any help.

Good news: it is already possible to explore the web in Spanish. In this week both the program and the web were translated into Spanish. Only the documentation is left to be bilingual.

If you have time, you can see the web translated into you language too with little effort. Translate the text in the web (it is not too much) and send it to me via email to droggo@gmail.com.

After several hours reading manuals I could add the Autoconf and Automake support to the project. This changes the way myPGP is compiled: now you have to type "configure", "make" and as root "make install" (if you want to copy it into your system).

This tools ease portability, and among many things allow the use of Gettext to get intenationalization.

This is the first time I use these tools, so many things can be wrong. If you are an experienced user, please tell me the mistakes I've made (if any).... read more

myPGP does already support internalization with GNU Gettext, so the program can be translated into any language.

English and Spanish translations are ready at the moment. We need translators for any other language.

There is also a translation called "xd" which is Funny Spanish. Spanish speakers can find it interesant...

I have written a parser in Perl for automatically get the last RSS with the news of the project and write them in HTML.

It is still a little bit nasty, but it does what it must. You can help me to make it better if you want.

Apart from this, I've changed the stylesheet of the web page. I hope you like it :).

I have written a quick tour in the documentation. It has examples that provide a general view about the working of the main commands of myPGP.

I think this will allow people to easily understand how myPGP works, and what it does.

You can find the quick tour in the chapter 4 of the manual (http://mypgp.sourceforge.net/doc/ch04s02.html).

Since yesterday, the documentation is browseable from the web page (http://mypgp.sourceforge.net).

If you are a developer with write access in the project shell (ask the administrator if you are or not), you can update the documentation by running "make update_web" in the "doc" directory of the project. This is an easy and quick way to keep the on-line documentation up to date.

The project home page is currently available. It has been uploaded to the CVS (module 'web').

The page is far from being complete, but it already has the structure and the main information.

I'm not very skillful on designing web pages. If you have a better design or something to make ours look more attractive, please send it to the mailing list. We will be very thankful.

The CVS of the project is currently working! From now on, it will contain the last modifications of the project.

Because it will contain the version still under development, is not recommended for end users to use the program in the CVS, because it may not work. To get a stable release, go to the "Files" section in the project page.

If you want to download the CVS version (we encourage you to do it and test the code!), please read the instructions in the "CVS" section in the project page.... read more

I'm pleased to announce the releasing of the initial beta version of myPGP.

This version was developed by Antonio Egea and me for our Cryptography class.

There is much work to do from now on. The first issue is to debug and test this beta extensively in order to have a 0.1 stable version soon.

I'm waiting for your help and feedback.