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Re: Hooks to Crypto
On Fri, 28 Jul 1995, Dr. Frederick B. Cohen wrote:
> Philo Zimmerman would almost certainly
> win if they ever took him to court, but by harassing him in this more
> subtle way, they destroy the impact of PGP in the marketplace, get MIT
> to support an official (and perhaps customized for the NSA to have weak
> keys) version,
I've personally pulled apart the innards of both MIT pgp 2.6.2 and the
non-MIT pgp 2.6.2i in order to generate large primes and full RSA keys.
There are no hacks in MIT pgp that cause it to generate weak keys.
- Andy
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