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You can check out the commercial version at http://www.pgp.com/, but I would also seriously consider PGPckt 6.58, a forked and free version that works just fine under WinXP (and previous versions of Windows). That's the version I've been using.

I think we'll all find that this ends up being less of a problem than it seems to be, and certainly one unworthy of Declan's attention. The first thing to consider is that of the couple of security/crypto archives out there (Wiretapped, munitions.vipul.net, the old zedz.net site, Packetstorm), the crypto.radiusnet.net one is the only one of the group that is out of date, disorganised and discourages mirroring. Look over the site, and you'll see what I mean. The second thing to consider is that (as another poster has already mentioned) PGPi.org has the explicitly freeware versions of the software available on a number of mirrors worldwide, and does not appear to have been made a target here.

Conspiracy theories aside, if they were mirroring commercial versions of the product, NAI is well within their rights to pursue them, and I'm sure the other legitimate crypto/security archive sites will be glad to see crypto.radiusnet.net stop sullying their good names by association.

As Theo says himself in his interview, people who don't like his model of selling the ISOs are free to make their own. This will hopefully quiet the stupidity that usually follows this announcement:

As usual, ISO images here.

Is this the same CFS (by Matt Blaze)?

Does anyone know of a more recent version?

And how does it compare to TCFS?

Given the proliferation of cheap (ala CheapBytes) and free (from zedz, for example) ISO images of OpenBSD CDs, and the far more "available" nature of your *BSD and Linux competition, do you believe that your copyright (and through it, the official OpenBSD policies you've created) on the layout of the OpenBSD CD still warranted? Why?

A "virtual conflict" or a "virtual war" simply does not exist: it's a contradiction in terms.

If it were only virtual, it would not be a war. However, every war, from primitive times onward, has had an informational component.

Book 13 of Sun-Tzu is all about information. Wars are won not by defeating opponents but by defeating their will to fight, or their belief that victory is possible.

It is also won by degrading the enemy's public image to the point that other nations fear being seen as supporting them, thus depriving them of the matériel needed to continue a war.

America currently bases its military strategy almost entirely on the PR value of doing so. If America successfully creates an image of having won a war, then they have, for all they care, won the war.

I tend to think this will backfire on the US, especially when dealing with fanatics who have memories that last centuries, whereas the American public seems to have a memory that lasts until the next commercial.

Incidentally the US is not alone in this dangerous habit. Here's an interesting story about the propaganda efforts by NATO in the Serbian war, and how readily the mass media swallowed it hook, line and sinker.

Not related to this, this guy runs one of the best archives of crypto/security-related software for RedHat, the ftp.zedz.net (which used to be ftp.replay.com before they sold the domain).

Alex de Joode is definitely NOT a cybersquatter.

-Yenya
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Dead or Alive, Mr. de Joot certainly is in the right here. The openssh.org site is not in anyway harming openssh. They're even providing the courtesy of linking to the projects site. OpenSSH should be happy that they're getting that much. They should have registered all of the TLD's, but didn't see it as being necessary, and apparently, they thought the .com was the one they needed the most.

Even the U.S. government has not been able to get around this mistake. There's the infamous whitehouse.com site, which is still active.

If someone came to me and said that I had to give them one of my domains, because they felt they had some right to it I'd laugh in their face. Simply because you're an open source project does not excuse stupidity.

Beyond all this, we're talking about the former Replay.com site here, now zedz.net which has provided for years a good many of us with free crypto systems. They were doing a service years before OpenSSH was even thought of.

I don't use OpenSSH on my machines yet, and I was considering switching, but due to this situation where it appears they're in the running for a Slashdot beanie for "Open source domain bully" I'm going to boycott the product, until they play nice.

Replay/zedz is unarguably the best privacy-related archive, and also widely mirrored. For crypto downloads, including SSH, it's simply great. I find the suggestion that Alex would want to strip us of our privacy by using a page that links to the "official" page quite ridiculous..

I don't know the reasons behing either Alex' actions, or the as-yet-unproven allegations of Mr. Bertrand, but I'm inclined to trust Alex somewhat more...
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The files are at ftp://ftp.zedz.net/pub/crypto/ linux/redhat/unsorted/.

Immediate? Not really! I still get:

Bad Domain DNS NAME:
Host Name: adsl-145-99-x-x.snelnet.nl
IP Address: 145.99.x.x
Your DNS name probably won't be accepted.

Still have to go to Zedz and Fortify...