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Re: Commercial PGP: Verifying Trustworthiness

> Basically, if both commercial PGP and freeware PGP produce exactly the
> same encrypted files as output based on the same keys, and if you have
> the source code and can trust freeware PGP, then it can be stated that
> commercial PGP is secure.  

pgp and viacrypt will always generate differnt outputs: pgp
adds some pseudo-random stuff to the start of the file it is
encrypting to ensure that a file encrypts differently each time. 

	peter