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@@ -54,6 +54,8 @@ modify this GNU manual.''
PGG is an interface library between Emacs
and various tools for secure communication. PGG also provides a simple
user interface to encrypt, decrypt, sign, and verify MIME messages.
+This package is obsolete; for new code we recommend EasyPG instead.
+@xref{Top,, EasyPG, epa, EasyPG Assistant User's Manual}.
@ifnottex
@insertcopying
@@ -78,6 +80,9 @@ communication. Even though Mailcrypt has similar feature, it does not
deal with detached PGP messages, normally used in PGP/MIME
infrastructure. This was the main reason why I wrote the new library.
+Note that the PGG library is now obsolete, replaced by EasyPG.
+@xref{Top,, EasyPG, epa, EasyPG Assistant User's Manual}.
+
PGP/MIME is an application of MIME Object Security Services (RFC1848).
The standard is documented in RFC2015.