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Re: Fw: my thoughts for this list
At 12:19 PM 7/27/98 -0400, [email protected] wrote:
>GPG = GNU Privacy Guard.
>
>GPG is a PGP work-a-like .. doesn't support RSA (yet) due to the patents,
>but once they run out, GPG will use it. I think it uses Blowfish (and
>CAST?) for the symmetric algorithms, and probably 3DES too. I dunno
>about IDEA .. I have my doubts due to the patents.
Actually, GPG has been a PGP-look-similar-but-not-interoperate-like
rather tha a workalike. Unless GPG has been updated lately,
GPG keys tend to do Very Crashy Things to my PGP 5.5.x
Thanks!
Bill
Bill Stewart, [email protected]
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