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Re: pgp3 (was Re: MD5?)
I just wrote:
> commercial, but at this point my understanding is that Derek Atkins is
> employed by SGI, and Colin Plumb by PGP Inc.
As someone just pointed out, Derek works at Sun. (I thought I heard
SGI chipped in too).
> No mention of pgp3 on www.pgp.com, mit; a web search reveals nothing.
An altavista serach found an Internet Draft entitled `PGP Message
Exchange Formats', however this appears to be a re-write of
pgformat.txt which is distributed with PGP, with some comments
explaining expansion directions. eg
: The public-key-encryption algorithm is specified by the public-key
: cryptosystem (PKC) number of field (f). The following PKC numbers are
: currently defined:
:
: 1 - RSA
: 255 - experimental
:
: More PKC numbers may be defined in the future. An implementation
: need not support every PKC number. The implementor must document the
: PKC numbers understood by an implementation.
The only explicit mention of pgp 3.0 I saw in this document was this
somewhat out of date comment:
: A new release of PGP, known as PGP 3.0, is anticipated in 1995. To
: the maximum extent possible, this version will be upwardly compatible
: with version 2.x. At a minimum, PGP 3.0 will be able to read messages
: and signatures produced by version 2.x.
Someone suggested to me that Derek posted a draft spec for PGP 3.0.
Anyone know of the whereabouts of this document. WWW searches aren't
turning anything up for me, other than this:
: To: [email protected]
: From: [email protected] (Bill Frantz)
: Date: Fri, 26 Jul 1996 15:55:38 -0700
: Subject: Usenet Conference on Security
:
: Just a few of the highlights:
:
: (1) Ron Rivest speaking on SDSI
: [...]
: (7) Derek Atkins' description of the PGP Library API.
Adam
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