PGP Augmented Messaging (PAM) is a cryptographic add-on package for GNU Emacs, including XEmacs. It extends Emacs mail and news functionality to support PGP. Currently, PAM supports mh-e, the Emacs interface to the MH mail handler, and the GNUS newsreader.
PAM is distributed as a PGP file, pam.tar.pgp. NOTE:You want to download the file rather than view it. For example, with Netscape, instead of a left-click (Open this link), you should use shift-left-click (Save link as) on the hyperlink.
The PGP file contains an archive produced by tar(1) and is signed with the author's private key. You can verify the signature, using the corresponding public key.
To extract PAM from the distribution file, first run PGP on it:
% pgp pam.tar.pgp
Then run tar(1) on the result:
% tar xf pam.tar
You can also view the Read Me and other files in the untarred directory.
Thanks also to Philip Zimmermann <prz@acm.org>, both for creating PGP and for suggesting the current name of this package.
And thanks to those who have tested this package for me, especially Linn Stanton <stanton@acm.org> who endured the early phases of development and provided incentive to get things into shape for a general release.
Last modified: Fri May 16 22:20:24 EDT 1997