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PGP 2.6

Changes to PGP 2.4:

- Fixed a bug with the -z <passphrase> option.  If no passphrase was given,
  PGP used to crash.

- When using -c, the IV is generated properly now, and the randseed.bin
  postwash is done.  (This bug could have resulted in the same ciphertext
  being generated for the same plaintext, if the same passphrase is used.)

- Memory allocated with halloc() is now freed with hfree() in ztrees.c and
  zdeflate.c.  (MS-DOS only.)

- The decompression code now detects end of input reliably, fixing a
  bug that used to have it produce infinite amounts of output on come
  corrputed input.  Decompression has also been sped up.

- PGP -m won't try to write its final output to the current directory.
  This makes it less efficent if you want to save the text to a file, but
  more secure if you don't.

- Number of bits allowed when generating keys limited to 1024, in line
  with the limits in RSAREF and BSAFE.  It used to be higher, but
  folks, if you think you need a key larger than that, do some research
  into the complexity of factoring.

- Version number changed to pgp2.4

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