Does the gnu package give you gzip and gunzip?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Bixby [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: 19 September 2000 16:45
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Encryption and compression utilities
>
>
> "Leonard S. Berkowitz" wrote:
> >
> > We are still looking for such utilities for the HP3000:
> >
> > 1. Encryption. Yes, PGP is freely available, but with the
> restriction of "not
> > for commercial use", a phrase that is hard to understand,
> but that makes our
> > attorneys edgy. Earlier in the year (or perhaps late in
> 1999), there was a
> > suggestion that I pursued with nothing to show so far. We
> need a product that we
> > can use on the HP e3000 and the resulting file can be
> unecrypted by an outside
> > vendor that might be using a Unix or NT platform. Any ideas
> or suggestions?
>
> The HP WebWise MPE/iX Secure Web Server product (p/n B9074AA
> or B9074AAE) comes
> with the OpenSSL command line utility
> (http://www.openssl.org/docs/apps/openssl.html).  HP only
> supports the portions
> of WebWise OpenSSL required to administer a secure web server
> (i.e. key and
> certificate creation), but OpenSSL is also capable of much unsupported
> functionality too, including general purpose file
> encryption/decryption.
>
> > 2. Compression. LZW is freely available from the kind folks
> at Telemon, but has
> > the same "not for commercial use". Informally, we have
> heard that it is OK to
> > compress files and send them out as part of our business as
> long as we are not
> > putting LZW into some package we are distributing or
> selling. Again, this is not
> > good enough for our attorneys, so we are looking for a
> product that we can use
> > on the HP e3000, and the resulting file can be uncompressed
> by an outside vendor
> > that might be using a Unix or NT platform. Any ideas or suggestions?
>
> MPE's /bin/compress and /bin/uncompress is compatible with
> Unix compress and
> uncompress.  I believe you can obtain similar utilities that will work
> compatibly on NT.
>
> - Mark B.
>